Alice Pallot

Exhibited works:

Vue microscopique, cyanobactérie phormidium autumnale, CNRS Occitanie Ouest, France, 2022 

Bulle verte, Baie de Saint-Brieuc, France, 2022

Météorites rouges, Baie de Saint-Brieuc, France, 2024 

Marées vertes, Baie de Saint-Brieuc, France, 2022 

Pic solaire, Baie de Saint-Brieuc, France, 2024

Algues Maudites, Baie de Saint-Brieuc, France, 2022 

Visages verts, Baie de Saint-Brieuc France, 2022 

from the series »Algues Maudites, Red Bloom«

This project was supported by Résidence1+2 

“I use photography to question the impact of human activities on the environment. Imbued with a science fiction imagination, my images reveal overlooked issues. I conduct speculative investigations on the territories I explore, alongside scientists and activist ecologists; I question a near future by capturing the materiality of reality. I aim to adopt a deanthropocentric perspective where humans are no longer at the center of the biosphere. Science, of course, tells stories, and I reclaim them through the narrative power of photography. I want to project a world of possibilities that allows us to act.

The series Algues maudites [Cursed algae], conceived in three chapters, focuses on the proliferation of toxic algae in the coastal waters of Brittany. An environmental and public health issue, this algae causes multiple forms of pollution – visual, olfactory, and toxic. Its growth, driven both by climate change and the impact of intensive agriculture, transforms the landscape into frozen zones devoid of organic life.

With this work, I aim to confront viewers with the fragility and unpredictability of a natural world under immense pressure, while evoking the gradual collapse of biodiversity and its ecosystems. Algues maudites also questions the future habitability of Earth by shedding light on resilient life forms capable of surviving in anoxic environments – that is, without oxygen.”