In the territory of Charlieu Belmont - in partnership with the museums of the City of Charlieu (Loire)
The program Un territoire en trois temps launches a new project each year in a different region, with the potential to evolve over two or even three years.
This initiative is implemented in collaboration with a key local institution engaged or aspiring to engage in the visual arts, aiming to jointly support the project with the IAC.
The first phase focuses on presenting works from the IAC collection in a local exhibition space. The second phase involves hosting a young artist for a one-month residency dedicated to research and creation within the region. The third phase is organized in collaboration with a local school, which hosts one or more works from the IAC collection.
In the first phase, IAC collection artworks are showcased within a cultural, heritage, associative, or other publicly or privately driven local structure. This fosters cultural enrichment for audiences of all ages, including individual visitors and school groups.
The second phase features an artist residency, enabling exchanges and interactions with local residents. This phase emphasizes connection and creativity.
The final phase is designed to deepen engagement, featuring works from the collection in alignment with an educational project in a local school.
La forêt qui court – A work by artist Basserode from the IAC Collection
Charlieu's former Hôtel-Dieu, a historic monument dating from the 18th century, has been home to the Musée de la Soierie and the Musée Hospitalier since the 1990s. This setting of La forêt qui court (Dialogues) in the Salle des malades of the Musée Hospitalier, aims to explore subjects and questions about the human being, beliefs, the relationship between the sacred and the profane, interactions with the invisible that influence our bodies and minds... For centuries, these questions have offered a perspective, a realization or elements of an answer, and even encouraged reflection. In this way, the Musée Hospitalier can regain its emotional charge, as well as its function as a place of life and worship.
November 2024 – January 2025
Jean-Baptiste Perret (b. 1984, Montbrison; lives and works in Lyon) is a video artist with a background in scientific ecology before graduating from the Beaux-Arts of Lyon in 2018. His work has featured in exhibitions such as L’almanach des aléas (Fondation Pernod Ricard, 2019), Neume, spectre, fumée (MAC Lyon, 2019), and Jeune création internationale (IAC, Lyon Biennale 2019). Winner of the Art of Change 2021 prize for ecological projects, his film L’hiver et le 15 août was selected at FIDMarseille in 2018.
Drawing on his scientific training, Perret worked for years in environmental conservation in the Livradois-Forez Regional Natural Park. This landscape inspired L’hiver et le 15 août (2018), a film exploring solitude and unique connections with the living world through the lives of four characters. Using an immersive, near-anthropological method, Perret allows narratives to evolve organically. His work merges documentary and fiction, inspired by cinéma vérité pioneers like Jean Rouch and Pierre Perrault, blurring distinctions between subjective and objective, human and non-human.
To complement the presentation of works from the IAC Collection, Jean-Baptiste Perret is invited to take up a residency in the Charlieu Belmont area, between November 2024 and January 2025.
Focusing on encounters and research, the residency will include two workshops at the Lycée de Ressins, as well as sessions with students in the audio-visual cinema section of the Lycée Jérémy de la Rue in Charlieu.
Jean-Baptiste Perret's film L'hiver et le 15 août (2018) will be screened during his “ leaving the residence”, followed by a discussion.
This film was made during his research in the Monts du Forez, where he followed the life paths of four people: a farm worker after a burn-out, an elderly shepherdess, a newcomer and a naturalist. The artist asked them to confide in him their misfortunes (physical or psychological) and to invent ways of healing each other. As is often the case in his work process, he drew on know-how, affects and the environment to find complementarities.
February 2025
Founded in 1920, thanks to the will of Etienne Gautier, the Lycée agricole privé de Ressins is a place of life that comprises a high school, a Salesian community, a farm with a direct sales store, a reception center and a leisure center.
Installed on the Lycée site, Bernhard Rüdiguer's Petrolio (locus desertus) is a sound sculpture in the shape of a wind turbine, which marks time with the sound of a gong. Blades attached to the tips of the blades activate to the rhythm of the wind. Against a backdrop of widespread concern about the future of the planet, the artist intends to stimulate the imagination and give rise to spaces where man can be perceived both in his physical, carnal dimension and in his philosophical dimension; as a thinking body, aware of its being in the world.
This initiative is implemented in collaboration with a key local institution engaged or aspiring to engage in the visual arts, aiming to jointly support the project with the IAC.
The first phase focuses on presenting works from the IAC collection in a local exhibition space. The second phase involves hosting a young artist for a one-month residency dedicated to research and creation within the region. The third phase is organized in collaboration with a local school, which hosts one or more works from the IAC collection.
In the first phase, IAC collection artworks are showcased within a cultural, heritage, associative, or other publicly or privately driven local structure. This fosters cultural enrichment for audiences of all ages, including individual visitors and school groups.
The second phase features an artist residency, enabling exchanges and interactions with local residents. This phase emphasizes connection and creativity.
The final phase is designed to deepen engagement, featuring works from the collection in alignment with an educational project in a local school.
La forêt qui court – A work by artist Basserode from the IAC Collection
November 2024 – October 2025
Charlieu's former Hôtel-Dieu, a historic monument dating from the 18th century, has been home to the Musée de la Soierie and the Musée Hospitalier since the 1990s. This setting of La forêt qui court (Dialogues) in the Salle des malades of the Musée Hospitalier, aims to explore subjects and questions about the human being, beliefs, the relationship between the sacred and the profane, interactions with the invisible that influence our bodies and minds... For centuries, these questions have offered a perspective, a realization or elements of an answer, and even encouraged reflection. In this way, the Musée Hospitalier can regain its emotional charge, as well as its function as a place of life and worship.
November 2024 – January 2025
Residency outcome event: Friday, January 31, 2025 (details forthcoming)
Jean-Baptiste Perret (b. 1984, Montbrison; lives and works in Lyon) is a video artist with a background in scientific ecology before graduating from the Beaux-Arts of Lyon in 2018. His work has featured in exhibitions such as L’almanach des aléas (Fondation Pernod Ricard, 2019), Neume, spectre, fumée (MAC Lyon, 2019), and Jeune création internationale (IAC, Lyon Biennale 2019). Winner of the Art of Change 2021 prize for ecological projects, his film L’hiver et le 15 août was selected at FIDMarseille in 2018.
Drawing on his scientific training, Perret worked for years in environmental conservation in the Livradois-Forez Regional Natural Park. This landscape inspired L’hiver et le 15 août (2018), a film exploring solitude and unique connections with the living world through the lives of four characters. Using an immersive, near-anthropological method, Perret allows narratives to evolve organically. His work merges documentary and fiction, inspired by cinéma vérité pioneers like Jean Rouch and Pierre Perrault, blurring distinctions between subjective and objective, human and non-human.
To complement the presentation of works from the IAC Collection, Jean-Baptiste Perret is invited to take up a residency in the Charlieu Belmont area, between November 2024 and January 2025.
Focusing on encounters and research, the residency will include two workshops at the Lycée de Ressins, as well as sessions with students in the audio-visual cinema section of the Lycée Jérémy de la Rue in Charlieu.
Jean-Baptiste Perret's film L'hiver et le 15 août (2018) will be screened during his “ leaving the residence”, followed by a discussion.
This film was made during his research in the Monts du Forez, where he followed the life paths of four people: a farm worker after a burn-out, an elderly shepherdess, a newcomer and a naturalist. The artist asked them to confide in him their misfortunes (physical or psychological) and to invent ways of healing each other. As is often the case in his work process, he drew on know-how, affects and the environment to find complementarities.
February 2025
Workshop with Jean-Baptiste Perret: February 13–14, 2025
Founded in 1920, thanks to the will of Etienne Gautier, the Lycée agricole privé de Ressins is a place of life that comprises a high school, a Salesian community, a farm with a direct sales store, a reception center and a leisure center.
Installed on the Lycée site, Bernhard Rüdiguer's Petrolio (locus desertus) is a sound sculpture in the shape of a wind turbine, which marks time with the sound of a gong. Blades attached to the tips of the blades activate to the rhythm of the wind. Against a backdrop of widespread concern about the future of the planet, the artist intends to stimulate the imagination and give rise to spaces where man can be perceived both in his physical, carnal dimension and in his philosophical dimension; as a thinking body, aware of its being in the world.
