The Aquarium de Paris is showcasing the ghostnets art movement, which emerged in Australia in 2009 following a reflection on "ghost nets", the scraps of drift nets lost or abandoned by trawlers in the Timor Sea. Like anti-personnel mines, these nets continue to capture marine species, many of which are endangered, such as turtles, sharks, dugongs, crocodiles and whales.

Faced with this scourge, Australian artists have decided to create sculptures from this debris to alert the general public to the catastrophic consequences caused by this pollution, not only for the marine environment but also for the culture of these people of the sea. Indeed, for these communities, many of these animals have a totemic value. 

These exhibitions are dedicated to the work of artists from Pormpuraaw, a community on the shores of the Carpentarie Sea, on the Cape York Peninsula in north-west Queensland.