Garden

Garden
is an artistic residency that, for the first time, brings together five multidisciplinary artists from different European countries: Giulia Ravarotto, Tere Wiecko, Aurore Berger, Maria de Gier, and Flore Layole.

This meeting marked the beginning of a shared process, one that did not start from a fixed idea or form, but from mutual listening and a willingness to welcome the unexpected. The project was rooted in the belief that something meaningful could emerge simply from being together: as presences, as bodies, as people carrying different experiences, languages, and practices.

We used the metaphor of a garden to describe this journey: a space where each element grew through care, and where relationships wove into a network of interdependence. As in any garden, nothing existed in isolation; every gesture, word, and practice became part of a shared ecosystem that nourished itself over time.

We dedicated time to private moments of improvisation and co-creation in a non-competitive, non-directive context, as well as to informal public moments, where the collective process could be shared as it unfolded.

Within this frame, we moved through moments of embodiment rooted both in our experience in Larret and in our encounter. Together, we witnessed a no-form 'becoming': the first shape to emerge was a kind of activating space, where different elements coexisted in a relationship that required no effort.

The five of us embodied care and resources; we explored whether we could take care of ourselves while taking care of one another. We sensed and offered care as breathing space, as attention, as time, as rest, as dancing together. We welcomed people and explored what it meant to share what was already there.

The installation of these resourceful moving stations led us into an instant composition piece, where relationships unfolded and deepened, and fragments of a shared story met to create a collective artwork.
In the afternoons, filtering earth and working with clay to coat the walls created another kind of bond, an underlying layer that held and expanded our connection.

Throughout the residency, the surrounding nature played a fundamental role, supporting our process and holding us with its rhythms, textures, and silences. It became an expansion of our studio space, a living environment where practice, rest, and attention could continuously flow between inside and outside.