Quai d’Angers

The citizens of Angers are familiar with the fertile imagination of the graphic/set designers Philippe Leduc and Marc-Antoine Mathieu from Atelier Lucie Lom. The exuberant inventiveness of Leduc and Mathieu’s work has captured the imagination of Argos, a group of ten journalists, authors, and photographers who have decided to document the social and environmental changes and challenges humanity is currently facing.
A collective project that concerns itself with the population groups that have already fallen victim to climate change, Réfugiés Climatiques ("Climate refugees") will present, in a major exhibition, the fruits of three years of Argos’s investigations worldwide. Argos has also teamed up with Lucie Lom and Shigeru Ban, the former for the exhibition design and the latter for the architecture of the ephemeral building that will house the exhibition in Paris in May 2009 and during its subsequent tour.
Réfugiés Climatiques carves out a geographic and temporal path between exhibition visitors and future climate refugees, and in so doing appeals to all of the senses (via audio, graphic and written media) and the conscience of each and every one of us. The show will take visitors on an alarming and distressful journey to Chad, China, the Himalayas, New Orleans and five other locations. The Ponctuation Planet’Terre show will concern itself with one of these locations as a kind of draft version of the exhibition as a whole.