{"id":3152,"date":"2015-04-06T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.a-demeure.org\/production\/elisabeth-ballet-monts-dardeche-regional-nature-park\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T13:26:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:26:52","slug":"elisabeth-ballet-monts-dardeche-regional-nature-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.a-demeure.org\/production\/en\/elisabeth-ballet-monts-dardeche-regional-nature-park\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9lisabeth Ballet, Monts d\u2019Ard\u00e8che Regional Nature Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

You Will Tell Me<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

You Will Tell Me<\/em> is \u00c9lisabeth Ballet\u2019s response to a commission awarded by elected officials and residents of the former Eyrieux-aux-Serres Community of Communes and the Monts d\u2019Ard\u00e8che Regional Nature Park. Today this region, located in the middle range mountain zone, has more than twenty abandoned milling and weaving workshops and the question of their reclassification is recurrent. The Community of Communes wished to reflect on the presence and transformation of this industrial landscape and to address the social dimension of textile work.<\/p>\n

In Saint-Sauveur-de-Montagut, the presence of the Moulinon on the banks of the River Eyrieux is strong evidence of local working history. \u00c9lisabeth Ballet created a \u201clistening chamber\u201d in the old station stop across the river opposite the old mill. This shelter is painted blue and is preceded by a terrace equipped with two red-brown concrete benches. Inside, a window fitted with a railing was broken open to offer a frontal view of the Moulinon. An audio montage is broadcast in various places to multiply listening points.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe distance between the factory that we will admire and the site itself,\u201d writes the artist, \u201cwill allow the creation of an intangible work.\u201d In the listening chamber, the sounds of the river, the turbine and of nature mingle with noises of machines and voices of factory workers. \u201cThese voices invite us to take time to listen to stories of work accomplished here \u2013 its price, its joys and sorrows \u2013 and thus learn about the workers\u2019 skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

press release, May 2014 – pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t