Cairn. Laboratoire artistique en montagne. Préhistoire Gao Bo felt the limits

Gao Bo felt the limits of his photographic practice and began a process of questioning and reinvention around his work

Céline Chouzet

where Western artists reconnect with cultures less alienated by the art market and where photography regains a prominent place in creation (Cindy Sherman

motionless among the rushes and sedges that have managed over the years to take root

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Cairn. Laboratoire artistique en montagne. Préhistoire Gao Bo felt the limitsThrough the history of the Cairn, this work looks back on more than twenty years of contemporary art in the Digne region. Archival images, critical texts and interviews with Nadine Gomez Passamar, its founder, examine the challenges of an art center established in a rural context. The relationships established between art, nature and science, on which the identity of the Cairn is based, have nourished the approach of many artists. Their encounter with