Puy-Saint-André art trail

Discover the Puy-Saint-André art trail created by Les Transhumances Artistiques, an environmental art residency.

The Transhumances Artistiques loop is a unique experience combining art and nature in the heart of the Briançonnais region. It links the Maison de la Géologie with various hamlets, offering a walk punctuated by environmental artworks created by resident artists. Each installation reflects the richness of Alpine landscapes and their intimate connection with local traditions, while exploring themes such as ecology, transformation and coexistence. The trail is an invitation to poetic, interactive discovery, with each stop revealing new perspectives on the region's natural and cultural environment.

Here's a brief description of the works on the Transhumances Artistiques trail:

1- La montagne suspendue (Suspended mountain) by Yoann Crépin: Positioned at a certain vantage point, the suspended wooden logs take on the silhouette of the mountain.
2- Forêt d'hommes by Barbara Fougnon: An ode to diversity, an act of deconstruction of virilist ideology and a vow of pacification between humans and towards other species.
3, 11, 16 - Les trois pauses observatoires by Jean Marc Voillot: An invitation to sit on one of the trail's three Scots pine chairs, on a seat made of grey limestone, pink guillestre or black serpentinite, to pause and observe the surrounding landscape, listen to nature and appreciate the moment...
4- Tisser l'avenir by Véronique Matteudi and Hubert Célérier: A work with a participatory dimension. Metamorphosis in progress, or the prefiguration of a new world woven by our imaginations.
5- Les flèches pacifistes by Yoann Crépin: Les flèches pacifistes like to play and dance with the wind, their aerial choreography disseminating peace and gentleness.
6- L'enlaçoir by Stéphanie Cailleau: L'Enlaçoir is a small shelter made of felted wool that invites the walker to embrace the tree in complete intimacy.
7- Hymne à la vie, fleurs et pistils by Pascal Sylva: The installation celebrates the ingenuity of living things and explores the relationships between ecology, biodiversity, gender stereotypes and inter-species interactions, offering insects a suitable habitat and harmoniously integrating bees into the local ecosystem.
8- "Tree cocoons" trans-human - trans-formation by Roger Rigorth: What transformation takes place inside these two giant cocoons in the tree?
9- Songe minéral by Yoann Crépin: Lulled by the sounds of the stream, the stones of the valley fall asleep and begin to dream: they dream of uniting, flowing and undulating...
10- Corvée, bacs et chéneaux by Pierre Guilloteau: A convivial, collaborative project using local materials. It features a group of residents we met at the canal chore, pyrographed on larch.
12- Mémoire Neuve - Puy-Saint-André by Helena Malak: Sacred space of engraved schist steles and 25-minute sound documentary made with the residents of Puy Saint André. "Together we evoke the forgotten of the mountain, the gestures once repeated, what grows after absence."
13- Germinance by Alain Bernegger: This work is a tribute to germination, symbolizing rooting, solar radiation and the metamorphosis of the seed.
14- Shelter by Réka Szabò and Stefano Bosi: Shelter symbolizes our integration with nature, embodying the seeds of future growth through our interaction with the environment.
15- Fragments d'une montagne (Fragments of a mountain) by Anne Perier: The map recounts fragments of the history of Puy-Saint-André, the layering of vegetation and the paths that have marked the lives of its inhabitants over time.