4 ELEMENTS

Under the title “4 ELEMENTS,” we hope that this new exhibition theme will both raise awareness of and celebrate the landscape and resources of our region.

Water, air, earth, and fire have indeed shaped them and have played a major role in the region’s economy and its transformations. The four elements have enabled the necessary—or even inevitable—changes required to sustain human activity and maintain harmony with the resources the landscape provides.

At a time when major upheavals are taking place and lie ahead for us all, we wanted to reexamine, through the eyes of the invited artists, these “elemental” resources that belong to us and that will, we hope, help us rethink our actions and our connections—with a focus on the landscape and one another—so that we may care for what lies before our eyes, beneath our feet, in our hands, or embedded in our heritage as a force for transformation and dreams.

Guest Artists

For this exhibition, we will be hosting four visual artists::

Christophe Dalecki, draftsman and installation artist (63)

Drawings of trees and forests, and an installation that explores the use of wood and invites us to transform our living spaces based on our resources and needs. Instagram

Françoise Pradine, ceramicist (Bourges)

An installation of bottles shaped from various clays, some fired in a wood-fired kiln (black—a tribute to Soulages) and others crafted from red clay (Lava/Sigillata).

Jae-bum Myoung, visual artist (03)

Trained in fine arts in Korea and later in Grenoble. “La Bordure” studio in Pont-de-Menat on the Sioule River.

In a constantly evolving attempt “to capture light and shadow and create dreamlike worlds where it seems possible to touch the untouchable,” Jae-Bum presents an installation on the Four Seasons (ink paintings on paper, torn and then sewn together with large stitches) that transform and reinvent landscapes, places of passage, and the movement between the elements and between the seasons, drawing from the organic while simultaneously reexamining it. "I use earth, grass, water, ink, paper—simple, seemingly insignificant elements with an elusive essence […] to create lines of water and passage”

Jill Bonnaud, painter (63)

Paintings of air and landscapes between “sky and earth” that evoke sensations and raise awareness of the importance of awakening our senses to our surroundings. Instagram

Residence

We also have a sound artist in residence for the entire week :

Gilles Malatray – Desarsonnants (Amplepuis, La Loire)

Artist, Educator, and Researcher specializing in soundscapes, sound ecology, aesthetics, and land-use planning.

Gilles Malatray will lead sound walks for the general public, listening to the elements and the landscape, which will be “examined” using his listening tools.

He will facilitate guided tours for people with disabilities, school groups, and children visiting the exhibition, helping them discover the works on display in a new way...

He will also lead introductory workshops at the Neschers school. And give a lecture on “Landscape and Listening” (location to be confirmed) on Sept, 30. On the weekend of September 3–4, 2026, he will participate in a storytelling walk written by the storyteller Julie Grimoire. Instagram