Looking through the reeds
2023-2024. Artist-in-Residence, Camargue Regional Nature Park
I also learned about the different uses of reed -known in the Camargue as "la Sagne"- particularly for traditional roofing and fencing.
The reed bed exists in a fragile balance within the marsh, caught between competing interests in water management; it adapts to shifting seasonal conditions and can even play a role in water purification through phytoremediation.
To speak of this landscape, this environment, I transformed the harvested reeds into raw material for papermaking, embedding bird portraits into the paper through pressed imprints (embossing). My research also led me to nineteenth-century iconography, particularly the work of Peter Henry Emerson, one of whose images I reproduced using pyrography on paper.
Exhibited at the Musée de la Camargue, then at the médiathèque in Arles alongside antique scientific volumes, as well as at the Festival de la Camargue, this research invites us to look at the relationships we can build with the marsh and its inhabitants. A dense environment that is hostile to humans, it serves as a refuge for many species—by attending to its rhythm, we can try to see through the reed bed.
Views from the exhibition at the médiathèque in Arles
Images from the residency
Images from the residency
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