In Resonance with the Lyon Biennale. GAC art center / Residency at the Marc Seguin Foundation for Innovation, Annonay.

The multifaceted works of Christine Laquet unfold in an imagination of multiple scales and ramifications which crisscross the depths of the ground as much as the sky. The artist thus envisages possible futures by broadening our sensibilities by focusing on the dimensions of the geo-, the bio- and the exo- and by creating a link with the non-human. It is inspired by the Ardèche environment that Christine Laquet focuses on contemporary changes and her works here borrow as much from the natural space as from the inventions and particularities of this territory, from the 19th century to the present day. Cradle of numerous inventions – of which Marc Seguin was a leader – Annonay remained for a long time the capital of paper manufacturing. The first installationLa Salle de l’Observatoireembodies this industrial memory, at the same time as it links artistic creation itself to environmental transformations; the artist offers a space where scientific observations and aesthetic contemplations participate in the metamorphoses of which we are the actors. Laquet changes perspectives and imagines a space where a Conversation with wild herbs is possible. It shows us what we do not see or no longer see, of our near and distant environment.