Sand disappearance is a series of watercolor drawings of sand grains observed or dreamed by the artist.

Like the erosion that produces it, pigmentary layers are part of a natural movement of coming and going on the paper leaving their imprints as they withdraw. In these works, Maud Louvrier Clerc confronts us with the notion of the relation to time that differentiates humanity from nature.

Representing the sand in view enlarged from a microscope, our look ends up getting lost in the notion of the dimensions of the infinitely small grain of sand and the infinitely large of the islands that seem to draw. In this work of deconstruction, our very new definition of sand, allows us to see the causal links between its disappearance and the announced destruction of the coastlines.

Maud Louvrier Clerc was inspired by numerous documentaries about how sand has become an increasingly valuable material in a few decades. Even giving birth to real mafias who now control the trade. Thus putting in peril the solidity of the built structures, since the construction sand is subject to very strict standards as regards its constitution.

The artist is also passionate about the aesthetics of his composition, which can reveal up to 180 minerals made of a multitude of shapes and colors as well as limestone debris, skeletons of shellfish and crustaceans. Her paintings thus become an archive of the sand as a testimony before its disappearance.