Opening of the exhibition ‘Εωσφόρος / Éosphoros’

11.00 am Speeches by Alain Dubois, Head of the Valais State Department of Culture Bertrand Deslarzes, Chief Operating Officer of the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sport Jean-Paul Felley, Director of EDHEA and curator of the exhibition Hugues Reip, artist Followed by a cocktail reception Eosphoros: On the crest of the Mauvoisin dam, 15 panels. In the periodic table, 118 officially recognised elements. Phosphorus, symbol P, has atomic number 15. The alchemists, chemists and physicists who discovered it gave it various names relating to the intensity of the light produced by the element when it burns in the open air. Also known as Phosphoros, Eosphoros (Εωσφόρος), a figure from Greek mythology, he personifies the morning star, whilst his brother Hesperos embodies the evening star. In a two-sided installation, the exhibition Εωσφόρος by artist Hugues Reip unfolds, in time with the fluctuations in the dam’s water level and the ignition of a match, a latent world populated by hybrid forms and creatures, as if emerging from an imagination buried deep within the cave—a metaphor for our perception of the world.