Claire Frachebourg

HIRs (2024 - ∞)

Sound performance
The pyramids of Euseigne, Sunday, September 21, 2025, at 5 p.m.

Claire Frachebourg superimposed the map of the Hérens and Hérémence valleys with that of the constellation of Serpens, placing blocks of serpentinite in each locality. These blocks, split and opened like books, are comparable to snake eggs, bearers of creation myths. Slices taken from each one are brought together under the old Pyramides d'Euseigne tunnel, tall columns of earth topped with blocks of stone, shaped by glacial erosion. The serpentinite that caps the Pyramides has traveled from the seabed to the sky and carries within it the vibratory resonance of its history. The work, inaugurated on September 21, 2024, will be activated during a sound performance at each autumn equinox.

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Attraction

Sound performance as part of Museum Night
La Centrale, Saturday, November 8, 2025, at 7 p.m.

Serpentinite has a sound all its own, specific to its metamorphic nature, which has touched the seabed before reaching for the stars on mountain tops. Its song connects us to the earth's deepest time, awakens dragons and, through its natural magnetism, summons meteorites from the sky.

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Claire Frachebourg

Born in 1988
Lives and works in Valais

A multidisciplinary artist who graduated in 2012 from TIP (performance school in Freiburg im Breisgau), then in 2021 at EDHEA (School of Design and Art College of Valais), iel is drawn to faults, holes, and spaces that generate new resonances, relationships, and ways of being in the world through situated listening. Iel's research focuses on the imagination generated by changes in physical and temporal scales. Claire Frachebourg explores the hidden potential of encounters and the imperceptible voices that surround us. HIRs is a project based on her explorations in the mountains and her sensory relationship with stone.