Radical Biotope

An exhibition of Séverin Guelpa and MATZA collective

Le Ferme Asile in Sion (CH) invited Séverin Guelpa to imagine a thematic exhibition. I was invited to assist with designing the scenography and setting it up.

Séverin Guelpa conceives a monumental collective architecture as a Valais stage of Matza, an artistic project that for two years has brought together artists and scientists around the issue of water, both as a resource and as a social issue. He is experimenting with three dissimilar territories: Amboy in California, a village in the desert, the Aletsch glacier in Valais and the Kerkennah islands in Tunisia. Radical Biotope evokes the resources and raw materials, their power, their importance and the sustenance link that binds us to them. Like a radical landscape, this exhibition is a sensitive experience of water and raw materials. The monumental installation is complemented by a series of works by the artists who participated in Matza in 2017. The works synthesise different views on extreme territories, the scarcity of water or the potential of collective management of resources.