Winter Programming

To walk, to notice, to gather, to listen, to collect with care; to keep, to protect, to pass on, to keep alive.

On one side, a practice of attention; on the other, conservation as an ethics of care.

Between these gestures, a new programmatic cycle opens in winter 2026 (yes, this is how we choose to name it): curatorial practices of encounter, built season after season.

This cycle unfolds as a field report. It begins outdoors, with walking, listening, collecting, tracking a trail, before returning to the centre. Grounded in the field, it reflects on material and symbolic ecologies that are, by nature, relational. For a few months, AXENÉO7 becomes at once a studio, a refuge, a laboratory, and a relay: a framework in which it is possible to slow down, contextualize, connect, and transmit.

It is in this spirit that PRAXIS takes shape, a new program that shifts our ways of working and of showing. PRAXIS proposes a residency within the centre’s exhibition spaces, allowing research, experimentation, transformation, and detours to exist as such, visible, shareable, and engaging. Not to spectacularize process, but rather to create conditions of presence: moments of openness, mediation, and conversation, where one encounters a practice in the making, with its patient gestures, repetitions, and trials.

To inaugurate this new program, the centre’s team is proud to invite and welcome artist Maude Arès, who will inhabit AXENÉO7’s exhibition spaces as a studio from January to March. A spatial proposition will unfold there in situ and in plain view, over time, in dialogue with materials, the site, and the relationships that emerge within it.

Over the course of the residency, Maude Arès will also develop, with Simon Labbé, Erin Hill, and other collaborators, La pomme par laquelle je bois [The Apple Through Which I Drink], a performance that extends her practice through a fascination with object fragments capable of carrying visible or latent histories, and of opening the imagination to their trajectories. Taking the form of an activation, the performance will foreground material narratives and interdependencies, inviting a rethinking of our relationship to objects and to the environment through care, compassion, and a sense of equality with matter.

Throughout the season, through moments of sharing and transmission, we invite you to follow the creative process closely. By entering into this extended time, you will be able to observe how a proposition takes shape, step by step, and, at times, take part through your presence, exchanges, stories, or gestures.