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.

During the residency, Maude Arès will develop  La pomme par laquelle je bois [The Apple Through Which I Drink] in collaboration with Simon Labbé and Erin Hill—a performance that extends her practice, drawing on her fascination with fragments of objects, which can carry visible or latent stories and open the imagination to their trajectories. Taking the form of an activation, this performance will foreground narratives and material interdependencies, inviting us to rethink our relationship to objects and the environment through care, compassion, and an equality with materials.

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.