Boris Mörker's Underwater Art Triumphs in Paris with 'Paris Under the Sea'

The comic-art exhibition, which reinterprets iconic buildings as coral reefs, debuted at the Mennecy Festival.

Artistic representation of an iconic architectural structure submerged and covered in coral reefs.
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Artistic representation of an iconic architectural structure submerged and covered in coral reefs.

Comic-art artist Boris Mörker made his international debut at the Mennecy Underwater Photography Festival, near Paris, from January 16 to 18, with the exhibition 'Paris Under the Sea', which promotes Roses.

The exhibition Paris Under the Sea, which began in Roses in support of the Tramuntanets association, has served to disseminate Mörker's work and promote the seabed of the Alt Empordà town. The Mennecy festival, annexed to the Paris Diving Show, is one of the most important and oldest events in the sector worldwide.
The comic-art work combines imagination, environmental awareness, and aesthetics linked to the underwater world. Iconic buildings such as the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, or the Arc de Triomphe are reinterpreted as if they were submerged coral reefs.
The muse of the works is Chiqui Martí, a pioneer of Strip-Art and televised Pole Dance in Europe, who inspired the character of Lou-Lou Fanguette, a marine creature hunter. Martí offered a performance within the festival that delighted the Parisian audience.

"One of the most common species in the Mediterranean, and which is also found in Cap de Creus and Roses, is the red gorgonian. In the rest of the Mediterranean, gorgonians are yellow."

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Mörker confirmed that the exhibition will travel to his hometown, Wuppertal, in Germany, where he will continue to promote the beauty and singularities of the Cap de Creus Natural Park, just as he did in Paris.