Cairn. Laboratoire artistique en montagne. Préhistoire wealth as evidenced by the

wealth as evidenced by the deposits of models and samples preciously preserved by the Archives of Paris

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in socially constructive uses and revealing fears

Céline Chouzet

Chocolat Poulain

Cairn. Laboratoire artistique en montagne. Préhistoire wealth as evidenced by theThrough 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