Rachel Labastie and Nicolas Delprat have crossed the border to work in a small abandoned village of Navarre in Spain: \u00c9gulbati. Following their footsteps, we have also crossed the border to discover the outcome of their work in the contemporary art center of Huarte<\/a>. Leave and explore: this already echoes their approach and a first step toward receiving the fruit of the time they spent in \u00c9gulbati.<\/span><\/p>\n Before visiting the exhibition, a 18mm video introduces us to the thought and implementation of this project. We witness how the two artists took ownership of the place and occupied it. Busy bodies transporting, sanding, breaking\u2026 The gesture appears as a ritual towards\/with the material and the space. This notion of ritual becomes almost ceremonial when, on a full moon night, an ephemeral oven takes the form of a bond fire at the center of the village with, around it, as there should be, people from here and there, telling stories while waiting for dawn and the unveiling of the objects that cooked all night. All around, the openings of the houses, condemned with red bricks and broken into, are highlighted by the hand of Nicolas Delprat, thanks to an iron structure covered with phosphorescent paint that catches light during the day to release it at night. And the perfect circle of the full moon gives the impression of a story that has been repeating itself since the dawn of time.<\/span><\/p>\n