Stories of a mountain


2022 Outdoor installation, Hautes-Alpes

In Puy-Saint-André, during the second part of my residency with Les Transhumances Artistiques, I chose cartography as a way to tell fragments of this mountain's history.

Installed along a communal path, the map evokes the layering of vegetation, showing the more than 1,000 metres of elevation that separate the lower and upper parts of the commune, from the bed of the Durance river to the ridges of Serre-Chevalier.

Through stories shared by resident and the study of old maps, paths, streams, dates, former place names, and vanished spaces still present in local memory are etched into the zinc. An attempt to connect the history of the village, time, and geography: a landscape that transforms with the passing seasons.


Images from the residency






 

Residency presentation exhibition, Les Transhumances Artistiques 2022, at the Centre d'art contemporain de Briançon. Installation views.