Self-taught guide, from Marseille every day since the 1990s Mathias offers historic urban walks to all types of audiences. Recently graduated in History at the University of Aix-Marseille, the walks and shows offered are intended to highlight Marseille’s heritage and its history. Traditional walks, sound or theatrical walks, he multiplies the forms of expression to reach as many people as possible, but above all to never get bored.
Trembling designer
Gatherer of stories, poet in the shower, astromage in the making. An amateur walker who looks either a little too much at the ground and the plants, or a little too much at the sky in search of the clouds, she is nicknamed Alfonce when she creates images. Trembling draftsman, occasional musician, or passionate aloud reader, she thinks of her real job as a constant reading of her environment, which she tries to decipher and hopes to patch up when necessary. After studying graphic design in Limousin and a course at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille, the forest and the Marseille patchwork mix in her imagination, which she decided to put at the service of the material where we put our feet up.
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“I work in and with the landscape. Real landscapes in which I wander and bivouac. Landscapes fantasized through the stories of Science-Fiction and Fantasy. During these walks, I glean the forms, sensations and materials that make up my sculptural and performative practice. The know-how of ceramics or vegetable dyes allow me to raise awareness of the economy of my body in a landscape and to register myself in a genealogy of gestures. Most often, each piece is thought out as an encounter with a place and its inhabitants (who are not necessarily human). At the moment, I live in Marseille so I forge links with the Provençal hinterland. I fantasize “Nature” as a welcoming margin where I can become indefinite in a porous future. I try to share these experiences by arranging collective spaces where we can imagine new ways of living and doing. »
Whore and gardener, Lazare Lazarus draws bodies that open like windows onto clumps of burning garrigue, where the limestone heats under the agaves erected like temples, where the prickly pear cactus bleed in the sun, and knock against the shore, where the pines, flattened in the hollow of the scree, give off scents of cum and resin. Lazare imagines moving lands to collect the memory of bodies and recount our struggling desires. Herbariums, etchings, serigraphs, so many chapels to meditate and happily band with the landscape.
After training in life sciences, nature animation, and image technique, he is now a naturalist photographer and videographer who also evolves in the field of scientific popularization. Its activities oscillate between the observation and reproduction of natural phenomena in a framework of research and artistic creation, and the dissemination of this knowledge to the general public. Through images or “live” animations, exhibitions or hikes, he tries to encourage us to look at the world around us differently, to make us feel all its diversity, to arouse curiosity. Always with the desire to mix arts and science, nature and culture, knowledge and creation. And this through various personal or collective projects, such as the Bertrik project, an associative place of art and nature in the Alpes-Maritimes (moissons.eu/)
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© Yoann Thubin
© Yoann Thubin
Poet gardener
Raphaël Caillens constantly treads the truant paths outside the conventional boxes of a unique profession. A landscape architect by training, multidisciplinary at heart, calling himself “gardener-poet”, he rubbed shoulders with the performing and performance arts and always takes an artistic and critical look during his interventions. Each of his projects comes alive around a unique place, where one can take the time to settle down, to develop attempts to live together: what people feel in common in this place, how they can experimenting, developing it, commenting on it becomes a source of possibility. Thus is woven – between the taste for the human bond, respectful and generous, the sensitivity of the landscape whatever it is, the patience to work with all the living elements, the resistance to consuming and spectacular immediacy – a know-how together that lets beauty emerge. Evelyne Bachoc
© Benjamin Bechet
Collector of stones and stories
Nelle gleans and tells stories invoking collections of venom stones, stone butches that transmit their rocky languages, fossilized will-o’-the-wisps at bends in the paths, singing floods and muddy gestures. He likes to create semi-fictitious spaces, as if to invite himself into our dreams and hallucinations and invite himself to embody imaginary and desiring roles. His work takes the form of installations, costumes, altars, collections, drawings and invitations to tell stories.
It’s been a custom in his family since the dawn of time: Sébastien Maufroid has never touched a steering wheel. Knighted by ants, weeds and lines of desire, this aristocrat of the sidewalks, whose etiquette is slow effort, walks like a novel. Artist-author and hiking guide (Middle Mountain Guide), he draws maps from precious narrative threads. And on the slopes of the mountains or the slag of the asphalt, we hear him whistle his motto: knowing how to walk is finding good stories.
© Sébastien Maufroid
© Sébastien Maufroid
