"The Color of Water, Mississippi River, Ohio River Confluence", 2022,  Nicolas Floc’h. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Maubert, Paris, France
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04/30/2025 - 02/22/2026

NOMA - New Orleans Museum of Art 
One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park 
 
LA 70124 New Orleans

noma.org/exhibitions/nicolas-floch/ 

 
French photographer and visual artist Nicolas Floc’h’s Fleuves-Océan project traces the movement of water across our planet, exploring its flow through varied habitats and representing the ways we are all connected by water cycles and systems. This exhibition pairs vibrant monochromatic photographs of the color of water made under the surface with dramatic black-and-white landscape photographs made along the banks of the Mississippi and its tributaries—from Louisiana and across the country.
Nicolas Floc’h documented the entire span of the Mississippi during a 2022 artist residency in the United States with Villa Albertine in collaboration with the Camargo Foundation and Artconnexion. This exhibition, organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art, is a clarion call illustrating illustrating the importance of a network of water that links people across the entire continent. Floc’h’s photography translates important scientific concerns—like climate change and the looming water crisis—into an overwhelming aesthetic experience, without sacrificing any urgency or insistence.