About the Exhibition

“For the first time, the Palais de la Porte Dorée is hosting a global exhibition, Migrations & Climate, throughout its museum and aquarium spaces.

More than 200 items, including documentary photographs, works of art (some of which have never been seen before), testimonials, videos, infographics and immersive installations are curated to offer a rich, immersive and deeply human visitor experience.  

The creations of international artists such as Lucy + Jorge Orta, Inès Katamso, Christine and Margaret Wertheim, Ghazel and Quayola interact with the testimonies and stories of populations affected by these changes around the world, from Senegal to the Pacific Islands, Greenland and France.  

The result of rigorous work carried out with a scientific advisory board made up of international experts, Migrations & Climate brings to light and gives voice to often overlooked realities in all their diversity, highlighted by data from specialist organisations and long-term exchanges with witnesses and activists from the areas concerned … [the exhibition] is an invitation to rethink together how we inhabit the planet.” 

An accompanying catalog edited by curator Bruno Girveau, presents “scientific, artistic and personal perspectives to provide a better understanding of the interactions between migration dynamics and climate change on an international scale.”