{"id":17876,"date":"2025-03-31T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/?post_type=standish_evenements&p=17876"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:09:48","slug":"pepite-et-josephe-betalab-mission-photographique-estrie","status":"publish","type":"standish_evenements","link":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/broadcast\/pepite-et-josephe-betalab-mission-photographique-estrie\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e9pite & Jos\u00e8phe | B\u00e9taLab0625 | Mission photographique Estrie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Creatures of Wander: Eastern Townships<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

P\u00e9pite & Jos\u00e8phe
Sound design \u2013 Xavier Madore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Wanderlust: A History of Walking<\/em>, writer Rebecca Solnit recounts the relations shared between people and walking throughout the ages: \u201cIf there is a history of walking, then it too has come to a place where the road falls off, (\u2026) where bodies are not in the world but only indoors in cars and buildings, and an apotheosis of speed makes those bodies seem anachronistic and feeble.\u201d But what would happen if cars, rather than travel by foot, were to be the archaic ones, having failed to adapt to the body\u2019s natural rhythm? This is the thesis at the heart of Creatures of Wander: Eastern Townships<\/em>, the second chapter of a project by P\u00e9pite & Jos\u00e8phe presented as part of the Photo Mission in the Eastern Townships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three exhibited bodies of work stem from a 90-km walk where, over a period of 5 days, the artist duo collected old car parts along the side of the road, from Sporobole in Sherbrooke to their studio in Sutton. Shadow puppetry with an audio component, a cabinet of curiosities and cryptic wet plate collodions: each act as a study of regional travel, specifically in the Estrie region, on the ancestral unceded land N\u2019dakina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By blurring the old\u2014museum and archeology codes\u2014and the new\u2014artificial intelligence\u2014, the artists showcase a uchronic narrative, an alternative story of our roads, in contrast with our epoch when using your feet to move from place to place is marginalized. Walking gives back what cars took from us: a deep and real connexion with land, that enriches our perceptions of distance and our ways of taking in the ordinary and the extraordinary that dapple the spaces in between. In the words of Solnit, and as exemplified by P\u00e9pite & Jos\u00e9phe, \u201cevery walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ariel Rondeau
Cultural worker, independent curator and writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udcf7 Gallery : Courtesy of the artist
Hex\u00e9rastoma<\/em> – Bouche \u00e0 six cornes<\/em>, diptych of cyanotype prints on watercolor paper, 28 x 56 cm, 2024
Hex\u00e9rastoma – Bouche \u00e0 six cornes<\/em>, photograph, variable dimensions, 2024
Hex\u00e9rastoma – Mouth with six horns, sculptural assemblage of collected car parts, 76 x 18 x 41 cm, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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