Les calanques: FRAC Marseille, Marseille
The current changes lead us to question more and more often the relationship between Man and Nature and the distance of our Western societies from the rest of the living world. How better to reflect on this than in the context of the first urban national park in Europe, the Parc national des Calanques. Eight international artists - visual artists, architects, photographers... - reveal the fruit of their reflections, accompanied by researchers, agents and users of the park.
The Calanques National Park, the Pythéas Institute (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD) and the Camargo Foundation launched an international call for residencies based on a text written by Gilles Clément, gardener, landscape designer and writer, inviting artists to question the links to nature for the inhabitants of a metropolis in the exemplary context of the Calanques National Park.
Eight artists were thus selected and invited for a one-month residency from January 10 to February 14, 2018: including João Modé (Brazil). In the company of researchers, agents and users of the park, they have surveyed the terrestrial and underwater territories of the Park to feed their reflections.
This exhibition will give an account of the research carried out during this residency by the artists in connection with the researchers and the agents of the park, on the interface or the doors of entries, the jellyfish or the underwater landscapes, on our report with the stones or the plants... Questions, lines of thought, sketches will be presented, traces of these exchanges and seeds of future projects.
