TRAVERSED LAND/ Group show in collaboration with Galerie Hegoa

"TRAVERSED LAND/ Group show in collaboration with Galerie Hegoa"

from Tuesday, July 7, 2026 to Saturday, July 11, 2026

30 rue des Suisses, 13200 Arles / Festival OFF

“The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we locate them.” — Marcel Proust

The landscapes we pass through never entirely disappear. They remain within us as traces, sensations, fragile recollections. They become inner territories, shifting spaces where memory, imagination, and sensory experience merge.

The exhibition Terres traversées offers a feminine perspective on this intimate relationship between territory, memory, and the vulnerability of nature. It is presented by two galleries run by women who share this same vision. They have brought together works by six women artists—both established and emerging—such as Sophie Zénon, Mélanie Challe, Sabatina Leccia, Susanne Wellm, and Jeanne Raingeard.

Some works take root in real spaces—explored, observed, gathered. The plant forms of Sophie Zénon, elevated through gesture, like the Inflorescences and Ginkgos series by Mélanie Challe, or the landscapes reproduced on feathers, leaves, or shells by Clarisse Rebotier, reflect an attentiveness to living things, to their fragility, to the materiality of the world, and to what it retains or loses over time. Here, the territory appears as a surface of memory, marked by seasons, movements, the persistence of life, or its slow disappearance.

Conversely, the images of Sabatina Leccia and Susanne Wellm open up more inward spaces, akin to memory, dream, or mental projection. The landscape then becomes uncertain, traversed by shadows, silences, and diffuse presences. What is shown sometimes matters less than what surfaces: a sensation, an absence, a memory in the process of recomposing itself.

In counterpoint, the imaginative volumetric creations of Jeanne Raingeard introduce an unreal yet physical presence of the living. She reminds us that, despite transformations, erasures, and fragilities, something continues to grow, to circulate, to be transmitted.

Between real territories and imagined landscapes, Terres traversées thus offers a sensitive journey through the places we inhabit as much as they inhabit us.