Les Revenants is an installation of waxed paper drawings and glacial flour made in response to archaeological objects emerging out of glacial ice in the Evolene municipality of Switzerland where the work was first exhibited. The title means ‘ghosts’ , literally translated in English ‘those that come back’. The work is a development of drawings made to respond to environmental conditions in post glacial sites. Les Revenants  was made for the top floor of Maison Ribaupierre, a traditional Swiss house, built in 1548. The layered wax drawings are sensitive to their environment, changing with heat and light. Here, lit only by daylight through the attic windows, the images are illuminated and obscured by the movement of sunlight and clouds over the course of a day.

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Les Revenants is part of the group exhibition Sonner le gla(s)cier , curated by Maeva Besse and Marta Spagnolello , prodcued by Le Cairn as part of the Switzerland -wide exhibition project Regarder le glacier s'en aller (Watching the Glacier Disappear)  which took place across Switzerland summer 2024.

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It also builds on  collaboration with Musées Cantonaux du Valais during residency at Musée d’art du Valais (2023)and is part of the wider Emergency project.

 

 

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