ERRATIQUE, Collectif LACS

With ERRATIQUE, the LACS Collective continues to explore the relationships between memory, territory, and disappearance. Drawing on the changing Alpine landscapes, the exhibition examines the disappearance of glaciers both as an ecological phenomenon and as a transformation of the narratives, beliefs, and imaginaries that shape these territories.At the heart of this research lies the Alpine legend of *La Procession des morts* (The Procession of the Dead). According to this tale, souls travel upstream through valleys, rivers, and torrents, passing through mountain huts to reach the glaciers—places of rest, passage, or purgatory. Long perceived as eternal, these glaciers served as a threshold between worlds, a liminal space between the living and the dead. Their gradual disappearance thus entails far more than a transformation of the landscape: it also affects the narratives that allowed people to symbolically inhabit these spaces.Through visual, auditory, and artistic exploration, the collective seeks to capture diffuse presences, reveal the buried layers of the territory, and make the memories inscribed in matter perceptible. The exhibition unfolds as an immersive experience where voices, objects of memory, temporality, and fragile materialities overlap. By articulating contemporary practices and vernacular knowledge, ERRATIQUE offers a space for reflection on impermanence, displacement, and forms of continuity between worlds. In the face of the accelerated collapse of Alpine ecosystems due to global warming, exploitation, and contemporary development, the project seeks not only to document a disappearance, but also to examine the narratives that still allow us to perceive, traverse, inhabit, and interact with these changing territories.Formed in 2021 as part of the MAPS Master’s program at ÉDHÉA, the LACS Collective brings together four transdisciplinary visual artists—Aline Paley, Caitlin Aiston Valloton, Murzo, and Laure Gonthier. Their collective practice weaves connections between beliefs, memories, and environmental changes, examining Alpine landscapes as sites of material and symbolic transformation.


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