« In the Citadelle de Villefranche-sur-Mer, a star-shaped 16th-century military edifice, Emilija Škarnulytė has carte blanche to present her work. It is around the notion of depth, of the sea as of the sky, that the artist, in dialogue with the curators, has decided to radiate her investigations.

Invited on several occasions by La Citadelle for an exploratory residency, this nomadic artist was able to discover the exceptional underwater nature reserve of the Villefranche-sur-Mer roadstead, and its extraordinary ecosystem. She then collaborated with researchers from the Institut de La Mer (IMEV), a scientific laboratory based in Villefranche, and also joined forces with researchers from the Observatoire Astronomique de la Côte d’Azur. These encounters and exchanges gave rise to a video work that will be presented in dialogue with a selection of the artist’s other works.