How do we relate to the landscape? Whether it means a picture of nature or a part of a country, a screen or a showcase of our lives. This is the question that this exhibition explores with actors of the landscape (photographers, peasants, inhabitants and people passing through…), from the creative re-reading of a collection of paintings from here and elsewhere, long forgotten in the reserves of our ethnography museums.
An invitation to travel between the museums of Champlitte and Château-Lambert, this exhibition takes us literally into landscapes to walk with a fresh look in the alleys of Champlitte in the company of painters Victor-Joseph Roux Champion (1871-1953) and Alfred Giess (1901-1973), strolling along the banks of the Saône in the footsteps of André Beuret (1901-1996), surveying the villages of Mille Étangs alongside Bernard Marion (1935-2009), but also to escape to a real or imaginary elsewhere…
Designed to make us see (or review) the country, this landscape factory confronts us with an experience of change of scenery, suitable to revisit a familiar world (become invisible to us?) to question its evolution and debate its future… but also to travel in space and time in order to reverse our perspectives on the world. It is such a foreign look that we will adopt with the paintings of Totonac Indians in Mexico, who invite us to leave the landscape, after having measured how much our western conception of a decorative nature and exterior to us has nothing natural!
What if, from these images of here and elsewhere, yesterday and today, and from the confrontations of viewpoints that they allow, we imagine new ways of living and looking at the world through the big end of the telescope?