Guided tour with artist Pascale de Senarclens of her participatory work as part of the ‘Présences’ exhibition.
Pascale de Senarclens is a multidisciplinary artist from the Jura region. Trained in research-creation approaches, her artistic practice lies at the crossroads of conceptual art and cultural participation. She creates hybrid devices that share the common goal of offering new ways of experiencing a shared territory and forming a collective body between humans and all living things.
In the context of the current exhibition, she reflects on the issue of predation. Through a participatory approach with young people in the region, she has captured their vision of the predator. The bedroom thus becomes a place of vulnerability, a symbol of transition between two ages, where bonds between prey and predators are forged.
The exhibition ‘Presences’ tackles the subject of wolves by exploring the age-old and contemporary relationships between wolves and humans in the context of the Valais region and, more broadly, 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 for comfort’, 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.
In the context of the current exhibition, she reflects on the issue of predation. Through a participatory approach with young people in the region, she has captured their vision of the predator. The bedroom thus becomes a place of vulnerability, a symbol of transition between two ages, where bonds between prey and predators are forged.
The exhibition ‘Presences’ tackles the subject of wolves by exploring the age-old and contemporary relationships between wolves and humans in the context of the Valais region and, more broadly, 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 for comfort’, 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.
