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JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET
AND BENOIT PLATéUS
SEA LEVEL
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08 — 23.01.16 / London

“Sea levels will rise, experts warn, and it’s not going to stop.”
—LA Times, August 27, 2015

The sea level can be used as a supposedly stable reference to measure altitude, but, in reality, it is a fluctuating point of reference as its value varies with time and space. While sea level fluctuations often hit newspaper headlines, raising alarm of coastal areas being submerged, they remind us above all of the elusive nature of any point of origin. More than just the coast, rising water levels engulf any claim for the …