Guided tour of the exhibition Présences with Mélanie Hugon-Duc, museum director, in the presence of artist Ambroise Héritier.
Ambroise Héritier is an artist and illustrator from Valais. In his current exhibition, he captures the world of wolves by creating dreamlike paintings in which the wolf is concealed by his brushstrokes. Through this technique, he confronts visitors with this invisible presence: the wolf that sees without being seen.
The exhibition ‘Presences’ captures the subject of the wolf by exploring the centuries-old and contemporary relationships between wolves and humans in the context of Valais, and more broadly in the Alps.
Echoing the perception of the inhabitants, farmers and shepherds of the Alps, for whom the presence of this now protected predator is ‘too close’, the museum becomes a home. The wolves have entered.
The blurring of the lines between domestic and wild arises in familiar living spaces: a living room where humans and wolves have coexisted over time, a garden where dogs and wolves play with the meaning of evolution, rooms of attachments, predation and transformation. A path where wolves from bestiaries, taxidermied, in thermal images or as soft toys, rub shoulders like so many presences watching over a wolfish world connected to the human world.
The exhibition ‘Presences’ captures the subject of the wolf by exploring the centuries-old and contemporary relationships between wolves and humans in the context of Valais, and more broadly in the Alps.
Echoing the perception of the inhabitants, farmers and shepherds of the Alps, for whom the presence of this now protected predator is ‘too close’, the museum becomes a home. The wolves have entered.
The blurring of the lines between domestic and wild arises in familiar living spaces: a living room where humans and wolves have coexisted over time, a garden where dogs and wolves play with the meaning of evolution, rooms of attachments, predation and transformation. A path where wolves from bestiaries, taxidermied, in thermal images or as soft toys, rub shoulders like so many presences watching over a wolfish world connected to the human world.
