The New patrons of Saint-Claude/Haut-Jura · Lynx Project (art commission)

  • New PatronsFrançois Jacquier, speleologist, president of the Jura Speleology Club; Christophe Mollet, nature photographer and president of FINA – Haut-Jura Internature Festival; Marie Azzolin, member of FINA – Haut-Jura Internature Festival; Philippe Perrin, deputy mayor of La Rixouse; Christophe Maire, volunteer and mediator at Férus and for the Tétra Jura Group, owner of a guesthouse and table d'hôte; Romain Panisset, volunteer and mediator at Férus, sportsman (trail running, skiing, etc.); Natacha Bigan, coordinator of the Massif du Jura network within Férus; Pierre Viennet, director of the Interdepartmental Directorate of Roads East (DIR Est), agility practitioner and volunteer with Férus.
  • Structure médiatriceQuartier Rouge
  • MediatorPomme Boucher, Julie Olivier
  • Contexte·sEnvironment/Ecology
  • Dates2024-Ongoing
  • SiteSaint-Claude - Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux area, Haut-Jura
  • RegionBourgogne-Franche-Comté
  • PartnersCommission developed as part of the Lynx project, led by la Société des Nouveaux Commanditaires with the support of France Nation Verte.

In the Jura Mountains, residents who regularly engage with nature have initiated an art commission focusing on forest continuity, road infrastructure, and the presence of lynx.

Sharing a sensitive relationship with the environment, based on observation, attention, silence, and stillness, the commissioners are concerned about the ongoing transformations of the Jura forest, marked by intensive forestry, the effects of bark beetles, and increasing pressure from tourism. The road appears as a critical space, cutting through the forest and creating tension between human and wildlife movements.

The commission aims to open up a space for sensitive reflection on the place of the wild, the invisibility of the lynx, and the limits to be set on access to natural spaces, questioning our representations of nature and our human responsibilities.