After the exhibition “Alpes océanes, l’écume des cimes” in Sospel, here is “La Vésubie, rivage océanique,” in Belvédère, throughout the month of August. The author, Mathieu Vernerey, has been working in a mountain refuge in Mercantour for twenty years.
The exhibition “Vésubie, rivage océanique” follows the continuity of the book Les Alpes océanes published in 2012, born from the collaboration of photographer Mathieu Vernerey, writer Jean-Olivier Majastre, and geologist Michel Corsini.
Unpublished photos are added to the pictures taken from this book to extend the quest of the ocean which once gave birth to the Alps and to recall the maritime destiny of the Southern Alps.
Formed in more ancient times, the Mercantour was then submerged before re-emerging during the Alpine uplift, a witness to life before the ocean and a survivor of it.
Yet, on the heights of the Gordolasque, other vestiges testify to the origins of the massif, which itself was born from another, even more ancient ocean. Histories repeat and intertwine.
Wandering souls of these ephemeral oceans, the clouds, themselves engendered by the sea, recall their memory by reforming in the heart of the massif the oceanic mirage.
Mathieu Vernerey, photographer, invites you to continue with him this astonishing Vésubian odyssey, between sky, sea, and mountain.
