Mediterranean landscapes, and the construction of their history as much as the experience of their aesthetic adventure, are fed by migration, nomadism, encounter and geographic exchange, as Fernand Braudel's La Méditerranée showed; from this perspective, this brief essay first accounts for a poetics at work in Mediterranean space, then for an excess of representation revealing Mediterranean artists' taste for the art of opposites, landscapes finally appearing as a platform of encounters, a sea of passages between images, texts and sounds for which space and its expression become depositary, mirror and branching tree, accompanied by a folio of photographs by Florence Chevallier, Bernard Guillot, François Méchain, Corinne Mercadier and Bernard Plossu, alongside photograms from films by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Daniel Pollet.