François LURQUIN - Draughtsman, architect and designer

François Lurquin was born in 1997 in Verviers, where he lived for the first twenty years of his life before moving to Liège to study architecture. He later decided to make a fresh start in the Hautes-Alpes. From an early age, François Lurquin was immersed in the artistic world, mainly thanks to his grandfather Raymond Gaillard, a painter. With his rather discreet personality, it was through the work of his hands that the young artist always sought to escape, to communicate, to show who he was and what he felt.

 Artist's note :

«OBSERVE-FEEL-UNDERSTAND-TRANSCRIBE. This is how I found my process of representation. My own experiences become a source of inspiration: rediscovering a memory through drawing, drawing for myself and not for others, capturing an emotion and transmitting it to you.... »

Bego BARCENA - Photographer, videographer and biologist

Bego Barcena was born in 1992 in Pamplona, Spain, where she lived until she was 21. She studied biology and obtained a master's degree in Antwerp. Finally, after devoting part of her life to travelling and research into living things, she decided to settle in the Hautes-Alpes.

She has always been interested in photography. When she was a child, she loved to lose herself in the house to look at old photos stored in her father's and grandfather's boxes... The passion was born.
As well as photography, Bego Barcena also works with video, mainly in the entertainment world.
Her work is raw and natural. She uses nature, life and sunlight to create a unique atmosphere that is both close to and far from reality. Her photos come from where she comes from, as well as from wherever her many travels have taken her.

Presentation of the exhibition by the artists

 "Man is elevated by his modesty and humility and degraded by his pride."
"The mountains offer man what society forgets to give him.

The mountains teach us that the biggest mountains are not necessarily the ones with the most wealth.
The real mountain attracts as much as it repels, we admire it as much as we fear it. It tends to surpass us, to push back our limits, pretending to find sublimity only in the great names, but often leaving all that beauty to one side...

Our exhibition turns towards this more ordinary side, towards this mineral authenticity, this omnipresent purity. These mountains tower over us. We are at home in their great garden. We spend time there, we contemplate them daily, and yet every day our eye catches something different.
Here, we show you our subjectivity, our spontaneous feelings, our emotions found in this immensity where potential is often mixed with the unseen. We offer you our singular framings, our shifted views... 

Bego Barcena, François Lurquin