Eric Giraudet de Boudemange has inaugurated Villa du Parc’s latest research and artmaking residency in partnership with l’Archipel Butor and Paysalp.

The artist’s works spring from field work in which ethnographic research blends with a sensitive yet funny approach, giving rise to personal poetic narratives. These can take a range of expressions, video, installation, sculpture, performance, and more recently videogames.

He has begun in Haute-Savoie a new series of works on water as a resource and natural source of prosperity, an entry point that allows him to look into and link together different economic and representational networks, including traditional or ultraliberal, rural, spiritual, and marketing. “It’s about highlighting an ecosystem that is in a loop, a cycle bringing together water, milk, and energy flows through agriculture, the economic use of natural resources, and local beliefs.”