The exhibition will transfer in early June 2024 to the Musée du Quercorb, Puivert, France. 

It is the latest stage of a 2 years’ creative project involving visual and sound artists and the music of Troubadour songs from southern France.

Chemins de migration combines colour and black and white photographs with sound and video, and Troubadour and Sephardic songs, in an immersive event.  It centres on sites in southern France where we experienced that strange sense of migration and place.      

These places include stone shepherds’ huts and the site of an ancient grain mill, a castle celebrated for Troubadour music and culture, as well as one abandoned in the historical shifting of borders and allegiances. 

It looks at the ways we experience a sense of place – hard to define yet unmistakable when we feel it.                                           

How did simple stone shepherds’ huts in the Pyrenees act as a portal, leading visual and sound artists’ imaginations to connect with the relationship of landscapes to buildings?

Why is this combination of sound and visual so important? 

These questions have led us along a creative path of connection and discovery between old and new routes of thought, travel and migration. We are seeking answers through this exhibition.                                                                          

We hope that you will join us in this exploration of Chemins de migration.

The participants are:

from France:

• Peter Reid, digital colour photography;
• Rachel Salter, research and performance of Troubadour and Sephardic songs.  

from Ireland:

• Anthony Kelly, audio & video field recordings;     
• Seán McCrum, medium format b/w negative film; 
• Paddy Sammon, text and editing.

You can hear a short audio excerpt from the project on Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/user-349542478/le-chemins-de-migration-sketch-composition