This project is located in the Camargue Regional Nature Park. An anthropocene zone, lagoon-marine and fluvio-lacustrine, somewhere between deeps and shallows. My research focuses on this mythical wilderness where I live and work. Through immersion in familiar day-to-day rural life, I'm exploring what it means not only to see a given space, but also to inhabit it.

My idea is to sketch out portraits of life in the Camargue, beyond its myths. For this project, I am pursuing discussions with “people from the mas (Mediterranean farmhouse)”. Fishermen, breeders, farmers, of different genders and age groups. What is their space? What is their time frame? This is an invitation to reflect upon the challenges of territorial management. These questions are based on Bernard Picon's book L'Espace et le Temps en Camargue [Space and Time in Camargue].

Here we find ourselves between humans and their environment, a territory and its occupancy. The project deals with remembrance. The fragile condition of this territory poses a concern. The project reflects a commitment to safeguarding the remnants of a heritage and a tradition, while at the same time questioning what constitutes them and how they are passed on.

Françoise Galeron