“I go to the mountains because that’s where the edge of the earth came to be.”*

Le bord de la terre (The Edge of the Earth) is the account of a journey to the outer limits. A story told in six chapters—between romantic panorama, documentary, social, ecological, and geological approaches—through which the invited artists draw a sensitive portrait of a territory in transformation.

Humankind is a witness, a visitor, and a go-between in a landscape that surpasses it, “because the mountains keep growing.”

With: Téo Becher, Simon Boudvin, Claude Cattelain, Caroline Corbasson, Max Coulon, Antonin Detemple, Matthieu Gafsou, Julia Gault, Noémie Goudal, Éloïse Le Gallo & Julia Borderie

Curated by: Simon Jung, Jeanne de La Masselière, Inès Massonie

Visual identity by Lana Lofé

22 May to 19 July, 2025
Open Fridays and Saturdays, 3pm-7pm

Opening Thursday, May 22, 6pm-9pm, courtesy of Maison Ruinart

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*Quote from Impossible, Erri De Luca, Gallimard Editions, 2020, p.26

2:15pm: Introductory remarks


2:30 pm - 3:45 pm: Round table 1
Telling the mountain story

How have artists represented and recounted the mountain over the centuries? How have these narratives and representations shaped our perception of the mountain, and even its development as a space apart? What new narratives would we like to invent for the mountains of tomorrow? Between memory, symbolism and the construction of narratives, the mountain can be read as an exceptional territory, shaped by the way we look at it.

With :
- David Zerbib, philosopher, teacher-researcher at ESAAA and HEAD - Geneva, coordinator of the L'effondrement des Alpes program.
- Ariane Brioist, head of the Design des Territoires program (EnsAD), accompanied by an artist from the program.

Moderated by Patrice Chazottes, former general manager of Clermont-Ferrand Massif central 2028


4:00 pm - 5:15 pm: Round table 2
Living in the mountains

How do we inhabit and develop today's unique mountain territories? What new imaginaries can we build to make them desirable and liveable for those who live there? What role can art, culture and artists play in these transitions? Tales of intersecting experiences, for a new way of living in mountain territory.

With :
- Fiona Mille, President of Mountain Wilderness France, author of Réinventons la montagne : Alpes 2030, un autre imaginaire est possible
- Céline Saint-Martin, director of Scènes Obliques, a cultural organization based in the Belledonne massif and organizer of the Festival de l'Arpenteur.
- Rémy Coint and & Emmanuelle Valersteinas, architects with Snøhetta, involved in projects combining rehabilitation, sustainability and innovation.

Moderated by Marianne Carre, Manifesto


5:30 pm - 6:45 pm: Round table 3
Around the exhibition

An exchange with exhibition curators Simon Jung, Jeanne de La Masselière and Inès Massonie


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