The exhibition \u2018Tracing Paths, Finding One\u2019s Place\u2026\u2019 is an installation situated at the crossroads of contemporary art and the humanities, between observation and pastoral practice and artistic practice, and the writings of pastoral movements to map out a pastoral heterotopia (according to Michel Foucault) that seeks to find its bearings in the landscape amidst living creatures and alongside the herding dog. A collection of tapestries and a felt cape, presented here, are the result of fieldwork: walks through the summer pastures of Cagire, Escalette, Gar, Bentaillou, Urets, Formigu\u00e8res, G\u00e9rac and Val Louron\u2026 encounters with shepherds, farmers and shearers; the collection of stories and traditional techniques; and the shearing and harvesting of wool from flocks that have transhumed and come down from the Pyrenean mountains.<\/p>\n
This raw material, worked by hand \u2013 harvested, sorted, washed, carded, combed and felted \u2013 becomes the medium for a dynamic cartography of wool, collectively shaping the relationships between humans, animals and territories.<\/p>\n
Each piece of felt is both a physical archive \u2013 through its material and geography \u2013 and a sensitive cartographic space capturing movement within its landscape: that of transhumance, animal movements and the journeys associated with pastoral practices during the summer grazing season in the Pyrenees.<\/p>\n
The choreographic dimension of the pastoral and artisanal gestures in this creative research emerges from walking \u2013 walking with the sheep and engaging with the topography \u2013 as methods: surveying the landscape in all weathers, charting a course, guiding the flock through its rugged terrain, falling into a rhythm, a breath, a presence, knowing how to position oneself between the dogs and the sheep, walking, walking, seeking shelter, walking \u2013 but above all, ensuring they eat well!
\nThe mountains become a space for the expression of life, of the gesture of care, of the path, of the sheep track, where attention to living beings is expressed through forms of movement shared between humans and non-humans, between body and matter, all of which forms a choreographic score.<\/p>\n
By combining pastoral practices, cartography, textile art and transhumance, Aur\u00e9lia Guy explores how traditional practices\u2014such as protecting flocks and adapting to nature\u2014shape the ways in which we move through landscapes and live amongst living beings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-21787","agenda","type-agenda","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/destination-commingespyrenees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/agenda\/21787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/destination-commingespyrenees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/agenda"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/destination-commingespyrenees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/agenda"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/destination-commingespyrenees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}