During the summer of 2020, the association l’envers des pentes offered eight artists a residency in a mountain refuge. This was the third time the association offered these residencies. For the selected artists, it was an invitation to plunge into the concrete physical reality of these specific sites to anchor their practice in the lands enclosed by the Parc National des Ecrins, and, in doing so, offer a singular reading of the area.

The artists in residence made the most of this opportunity to experiment and produce an art piece while staying on site and sharing their questions and reflections with both the refuge staff and the other people spending the night there.

La Villa du Parc has already featured several projects that highlighted the connections between art and mountain sites. So we are looking forward to hosting for the second time l’envers des pentes to recreate the 2020 residencies in a four-part show. Each period will focus on the works of two resident artists brought together for the occasion and invited to take over our veranda gallery together.

Focus:
Nelly Monnier and Anna Ternon – 4 Sept. – 30 Sept. 2021
Léo Baudy and Gaëlle Foray – 1 Oct. – 28 Oct. 2021
Emilien Adage and Arthur Poisson – 29 Oct. – 25 Nov. 2021
Guillaume Barborini and Louise Porte – 26 Nov. – 19 Dec. 2021

The association l’envers des pentes was founded in 2018 by Marion Wintrebert with the aim of devising and producing artistic and cultural projects based in mountain regions and communities. The association introduced a program of artists’ residencies in mountain refuges, placing at the disposal of the guest artists human, technical and financial means for carrying out their experimental and artistic projects. The association l’envers des pentes also tries to both promote and display the results of these residencies for the particular region’s inhabitants through publications, exhibitions, Q&As, and workshops.