Migrations and Climate

For the first time ever, the Palais de la Porte Dorée presents a worldwide exhibition: Migrations and Climate, taking place across all its spaces — the Museum and the Tropical Aquarium.

Over 200 items, including documentary photographs, artworks, testimonies, videos, infographics and immersive installations are curated in order to offer a research-based, incarnated and sensitive exhibition experience.

A parallel is drawn between the innovative artworks of international artists such as Lucy + Jorge Orta, Inès Katamso, Margaret Wertheim, Ghazel, Nick Brandt or Quayola and key issues affecting diverse geographic regions — from Senegal to the Pacific Islands via Greenland and, of course, France. The exhibition magnifies a variety of realities often overlooked — from both the general public and those directly affected by them.

The exhibition is based on rigorous scientific research, drawing on data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the CLIMIG* project. A scientific advisory board of international experts supported the curatorial process, including François Gemenne, IPCC rapporteur and leading expert on environmental migration, Sylvie Dufour, marine biologist and emeritus CNRS research director. This work was also shaped by a dialogue with witnesses, activists, and people directly affected by these issues.

By weaving together artistic, scientific, and civic perspectives, Migrations and Climate sheds light on a crucial social debate and invites us to put humans and all living beings at the core of our climate, cultural, and social concerns. We are actively involved in crafting collectively responses to ongoing upheavals.
 

Commissariat de l'exposition

• Bruno Girveau, Emeritus General Conservator of Heritage, Chief Curator
• Élisabeth Jolys Shimells, Chief Conservator of Heritage, Curator
• Gabriel Picot, rHead of Cultural and Educational Programming of the Tropical Aquarium, Curator
• Assisted by Olivier Bedoin, Curatorial Assistant

Scientific Committee

• Sylvie Dufour, CNRS Emeritus Research Director, CNRS, Marine Affairs Manager, National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)
• François Gemenne, François Gemenne, Political Specialist, Professor at SciencesPo Paris, University of Liège and HEC Paris, IPCC Rapporteur

^{Photo de couverture  : Nick Brandt, "Petero by Cliff, Fiji", 2023 © Nick Brandt / Courtesy Polka Galerie}