The Eyes, a cultural producer and independent publisher, is launching from 20th September to 30th October 2025, the first edition of FLOW, an artistic journey dedicated to photography and visual arts, presented in iconic heritage sites in the Occitanie region of France.
FLOW inaugurates a new cultural and civic event where heritage, creation, and contemporary issues intersect to question the present and illuminate the future.
Designed as an invitation to slow down, look differently, and reconnect sensitively with the world around us, FLOW makes images a lever for transmission, sharing, and emancipation. The program explores major social and environmental issues through the perspectives of committed artists. It highlights our relationship with living beings, the memory of places, multiple identities, migrations, social struggles, the sea, and the earth. FLOW asserts an artistic, ecological, and human citizenship that crosses territories and narratives.
Each edition includes exhibitions, site-specific installations, creative residencies, educational outreach, and meetings in close dialogue with heritage sites in Occitanie.
For its first edition, the journey is built around the title “Fragile is Precious”, an invitation to explore—through the eyes of French and international artists—the fragility of living things, the memory of places, the questions tied to exile and migration, and the threatened balances of our ecosystems.
We will explore this notion of “fragility” with artists whose approaches are inclusive, committed, and unique. Among them, the Swiss photographer Fred Boissonnas, who in 1912, through his Odyssey, used photography to (re)connect us with our heritage; the Venezuelan artist Oleñka Carrasco, who shares with us—across distance—the mourning of both a loved one and a homeland; and the photographer Anne Immelé, who, in her work Refuge, contemplates the fate of the Mediterranean by crossing the ancient Phoenician routes with those taken by migrants today.
Also featured are three photographers who were in residence aboard the Tara geolette, guest of honor for the 20th anniversary of its expeditions. Their perspectives and creations offer a unique opportunity to understand the role of the Ocean in our world: Laure Winants, Samuel Bollendorff, and Nicolas Floc’h all contribute to this reflection on our relationship with the living world. We also journey into a new relationship with nature, as invited by British artist Ryan Hopkinson.
Finally, FLOW presents the Ronan Guillou Grant showcases in Sète, awarded each year to photographers developing projects that connect humans and the marine world.
Chiara Indelicato, 2024 Ronan Guillou Residency winner , will travel from Stromboli to present her exhibition L’Archipel, the result of her wanderings between Agde and the Thau Lagoon.
Juliette-Andrea Elie, 2025 winner, will offer a first encounter with her work-in-progress What the Nacres Weave, centered on the fan mussel (Pinna nobilis), an emblematic shell of the Mediterranean basin, now found almost exclusively in the Thau Lagoon and the Gulf of Lion.
These perspectives and creations will be staged in meaningful and symbolic heritage sites across Occitanie—sites that also speak of the fragile strength of our natural worlds.
FLOW / The Artistic Journey of Contemporary Issues
Sep 20 – Oct 30, 2025
The Eyes
Various / Occitania, France
