Exposition "La corne, la pierre et le souffle" Par Zazie Grasset

Last summer, Zazie went up to Platé for a two-week residency. Her idea was to come and listen to the mountain, to conduct a sensitive exploration of its sounds, to capture the wind that blows through it, the noise of the animals that inhabit it and the traces of human presence. The exhibition La corne, la pierre et le souffle is a restitution of her sound adventure, recomposed and staged at La CREMERIE. During her residency, she was welcomed by the team who look after the refuge. She shares their daily routine. By day, she walks with her microphone tied to the end of a stick, capturing sounds. Up there, there's the importance of silence, which highlights every animal sound, and then there's the life of the refuge, far from silent, but also the planes and the passage of all those walkers who, over time, leave their mark on the mountain. Zazie takes these captured sounds back down with her to Marseille, where she listens to them again, reworks them, cuts them up and recomposes them. This already distant place gradually becomes a new hybrid sound space, somewhere between the desert of Platé, her memories and her imagination. One year later, Zazie returns with these sounds to restore them at the foot of the mountain. Without images, the sound piece is an attempt to take you through this hybrid space and to summon an imaginary place within you, like an inner cinema to keep as a souvenir and to bring back with you. It takes over the CREMERIE space with a DIY acoustic installation in which you can listen to the composition broadcast by hand-made speakers. This project is a way of understanding the whole sound process, from recording to sound writing to broadcasting. It's also a reflection on the places we don't see, those we imagine and those we encounter, but which evoke something unreal in us. For Platé is a strange place. Perched far out of sight, this desert of stone sets the imagination in motion. It's a landscape we recognize without ever having seen it, nourished by images from the cinema. The mountain is full of stories, and you can tell your own adventure. Zazie Grasset is a visual artist and sound technician. She studied scenography at the Beaux-Arts de Lyon and visual arts in Annecy. Sound is gradually taking its place in her practice. She then trained in the technique in Marseille, where she now lives. She works as a sound recordist and post-production technician for the cinema, experiences that nourish and crosscut her visual work. She often travels to new territories to listen and record what can be heard there. She loves the latency that lies in silences, the ambiguity of what we think we perceive and the imaginative possibilities of what we don't perceive.