Thierry Girard, invited by the Museum of Hunting and Nature to undertake an artist residency at the Belval estate in the Ardennes, went there with the idea of \u200b\u200bpaying homage to the spirit of Walden by the American writer Henry David Thoreau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He hoped for snow, cold, and asceticism, but found only torrential rain and storms lashing what turned out to be a battlefield, the site of three successive wars, and particularly, where he found himself, the site of the defeat of 1870. Salle des f\u00eates (Festival Hall) is carried by both a text by Thierry Girard, with its poetic rhythm, and the photographic account of a winter exploration of this territory of defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25235,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"nature":[1281],"statutdeslivres":[],"class_list":["post-25234","livre","type-livre","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","nature-photographie-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n