Between 12,000 and 6,300 B.C., sedentarization, made possible by agriculture and animal husbandry, led to a technological and cultural revolution from which we have not yet emerged. Edgar Sarin's furious craftsmanship at Saint-Nazaire's Grand Café auscultates the shipyard harbor imaginary in the manner of a living organism, with a profusion of forms in constant renewal: the artist with golden hands is constantly reworking the techniques and presentations of his exhibition, always in the process of being made, as if at the whim of the tides. Roughly carving several prehistoric-looking pirogues from hard oak, barges of trade and exchange as much as ghostly vessels convoying the dead, Sarin adorns a white skerry, a canoe with oars and sail, with two contoured wooden drakkars, evoking the removable dragon heads with which the Vikings adorned the heads or prows of their ships. The skerry/drakkar can also be seen as a tomb for Bas Jan Ader, the Californian dandy who died at sea in 1975, during a dangerous performance in which risk-taking was used to transform the subject into an object.

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