On location in Digne-les-bains since 11 October 2021 Artist, lithophile and amateur vulcanologist, Ilana Halperin reminds us that mineral matter is not condemned to leave us unmoved. Porous, intimately linked to our physical and temporal scale, it runs through our culture and our human, if not "earthly", representations, as an inescapable marker of our identity: who are we? where are we from? how do we show it? By combining personal accounts and scientific discourse, the artist reveals numerous cognitive, affective and plastic intersectionalities that make the "inert" an outdated concept. Architecture, archaeology, crafts, images or certain forms of rituals from…
photos credits: idbl art school / Claude Rocher and the artist Anaïs Tondeur ÊTRES EXPOSÉS 16 SEPTEMBER > 23 OCTOBER 2021 "As part of the programme celebrating the anniversary of the Cairn, the IDBL (Digne's intercommunal art school) has invited the young artist Anaïs Tondeur to present her work at the BILD (Bureau d'Implantation des Lignes de Digne). As a counterpoint to the retrospective exhibition Flash-back, a brief history of the Cairn, this joint invitation is part of a prospective dimension dear to both structures. For many years, the idbl and the Cairn have maintained a special relationship (inviting artists…
During the week of July 18, 2021, the Cairn welcomed (at last!) the American artist & biologist Brandon Ballengée for a first approach in the Dignois context: exploration of sites, meetings with entomologists of the region and night observation where we had the joy of apprehending a beautiful diversity of moths…Thanks to the association Proserpine Paca for the organisation of the observation evening in the Saint-Benoît park! Follow the Cairn's news to make sure you don't miss any of the upcoming projects in Digne! See you soon… To find out more about the artist's approach, click here : https://www.cairncentredart.org/fr/exposition-ete-2020/
Laetitia JEURISSEN & Fabrizio TERRANOVA laureates of the 2020 call for applications Laetitia Jeurissen (b. 1989, Belgium) is an artist and curator who lives and works in Mexico City. Her interests in feminism and postcolonial studies in particular, as well as her desire to create networks of affinities and collaborations in the world of contemporary art between different disciplines have led her to organize several projects. She is co-founder of Aztlan in 2015, a platform for interdisciplinary research and conferences. In 2016, Laetitia Jeurissen founded Squash Editions, a series of curatorial proposals that take place on a Squash court…
On September 25th and 26th The hiking festival will take place with the theme of Routo and pastoralism! On September 25th with the Cairn… What could be better than to take you on a journey in the footsteps of Marcel?The Sentier Marcel is a work by Till Roeskens. It consists of the installation of a series of fragments of Marcel's story (a former shepherd from the Haute Bléone) along a route that he followed all his life, thus allowing you to follow a life path and a mountain path at the same time. You can find snippets of Till Roeskens'…
New outdoor artwork, in partnership with Gassendi Museum, within the frame of the operation "le musée sort de ses murs", supported by the Ministry of Culture. Col of the second day Richard Nonas Cousson Mountain (near Entrages village) Opening, 13 July 2019 This alignment of seventy-seven heavy oak beams installed in the valley between two mountain peaks of Cousson. The artwork is itself the “col”, the passage between those separate places. Nonas emphasizes the power of an intermediary space between the peaks, the gap that opens the way to a new reality. His use of simple shapes and…
