Línea de flotación. Marc Larré

In Flotation line, Marc Larré turns his gaze toward what lies beneath the surface. The title borrows a nautical term: the line that divides a ship’s hull in two. What oats above it is called the “deadwork”; what remains submerged and unseen, the “quickwork” (literally, the “living work”). The video inverts the usual order of looking. It sets aside what protrudes and dominates the seascape (boats, motorboats, paddleboards, the leisure industry) to attend to what cannot be seen and, often, does not even want to be seen.

The objects we see dancing underwater are remnants of our ways of life. Their exact reverse. By making them visible, the work sets hierarchies swaying. The sculptural object gives up on enduring and imposing itself, and even questions its own historical bond with the statue and its stature. What remains is a tattoo on the water.