Looking through the Reeds
Vitis Vinifera
Atelier at 721 meters
Black Herbarium
The garden of Serres
Fragments of a Mountain
Looking through the Reeds
Vitis Vinifera
Atelier at 721 meters
Black Herbarium
The garden of Serres
Fragments of a Mountain
I draw on diverse fields such as botany, agriculture, craft traditions, and geography, weaving together multiple forms of expertise and intuitive practices to reinterpret the materials, tools, and uses I come across. This hybrid and transdisciplinary approach allows me to shift between the roles of maker, researcher, and observer.
My works take on multiple formats, often presented as site-specific installations. I engage in printmaking, photographic processes, image-making, and the creation of objects, and occasionally develop performative gestures.
Through my practice, I seek to articulate relationships between ecology, landscape, and narrative, revealing them as spaces of potential, resilience, and imaginative renewal. I consider these intersections as fertile grounds for rethinking our ways of seeing, making, and inhabiting the world.
Looking through the Reeds
2023-2024. Artist-in-Residence, Camargue Regional Nature Park
In turn, I tried to keep watch—waiting anxiously for an apparition of my own, though mostly in vain. Instead, I found myself immersed in the hypnotic choreography of reeds swaying in the wind.
From the reed beds, I learned that they shelter a remarkable diversity of species and play a vital role in water purification. Back in the studio, I took up my tools and began crafting reed paper—a gesture that allowed me, in turn, to conceal and reveal the creatures that dwell within or orbit around this landscape.
This work also extended into a collaborative project with students from Jules Vallès Elementary School in Arles. Through a series of workshops and field outings, the children encountered the flora, reeds, and birds of the Camargue. Together, we explored symbols, stamp-making, and printmaking, allowing these young participants to develop their own forms of attention and expression in dialogue with the territory.
Vitis Vinifera
2020-2021.Winemaking.Printmaking.
At the Château des Vergers estate in Beaujolais, I undertook a collaborative project with winemaker Cosima Bassouls. Across more than a year of observation and exchange, I followed her through the seasonal cycles of the vineyard—from pruning and bud thinning to harvesting—then into the cellar for the many stages of vinification and bottling.
It was among the vines and in the winery that I gathered the materials used to create an exhibition that pays tribute to the labor, gestures, and knowledge shared and passed on by Cosima.
From vineyard to bottle, and finally to the creation of an exhibition on the estate itself, this project tells the story of a collaboration and of interwoven perspectives—between agricultural practice and artistic practice.
Embossed on recycled paper, enhanced with vine leaves or wine lees
Series of analog photographs documenting the grape harvest and the early stages of winemaking in the cellar
Atelier at 721 meters
2017.video.objects.installation
To create, to produce, to build, to shape, to make — Atelier at 721 Meters is the result of a deliberate desire: the desire to do, and above all, to do everything myself.
This approach naturally emerged at the end of my initial training as a designer. I knew materials, design processes, production phases, and industrial workflows — but I had never truly shaped an object from start to finish with my own hands. There was a kind of abstraction in ordering materials, in imagining objects and outsourcing their production and assembly. This distance from the things I designed no longer satisfied me.
Faced with a set of dilemmas, I committed to making — physically, directly. Armed with a few rudimentary tools, I began seeking out raw materials and shaping them by hand. Though the resulting objects are not necessarily functional in a domestic context, their forms are familiar, almost archetypal. I focused on making every step of the process visible and traceable.
This project marked the beginning of a new phase in my creative practice, driven by questions that still inform my work today.
The project is documented through several elements that preserve its traces:
– An installation that brings together raw materials and the crafted objects
– A 13-minute video narrating the evolution of the making process
– A wall display featuring drawings, analog photographs, collages, and natural curiosities that reflect a personal reading of the explored landscape
– A self-published booklet compiling visual documentation of the project
You can also read the accompanying text written by Sarah Salem
The Mountain as a Workshop. (french)
video “Atelier at 721 meters” 2017, 13 minutes.
Black Herbarium
2019.installation.performance.estampes.
The installation also exposes the process behind the image — how the trace is made. After inking and pressing, the plants appear oiled, darkened, almost fossilized. They become inert, their material presence less alive than the delicate impressions left on paper. These blackened, spent plants are scattered on the ground, lying beside their own images.
The work invites reflection on the aestheticization of nature:
How do we choose what to preserve and protect?
What is the role of beauty in shaping our attention and care?
And more broadly, it questions the conditions of producing an artwork or an image: Must we beautify in order to protect? Must we destroy in order to preserve?
Thanks to Daniel Rovaletto, Laurent Charbonnier & Beaux-Arts de Digne for the printmaking press.
The garden of Serres
2022.installation.outdoor.botanical
After identifying the plant species already growing there — with the help of local residents — we organized a collective planting session in collaboration with the Serres lez’Arts association.
Aromatic and medicinal plants now grow alongside endemic species, forming a small garden nestled just below the Notre-Dame du Bonsecours Chapel. The layout subtly references the codes of a “jardin de simples” — a traditional herb garden — blending local knowledge, collective care, and symbolic landscape gestures.
Fragments of a Mountain
2022.installation.outdoor.mapping.
Installed along a communal path, the map unfolds like a panorama — stretching from the Durance riverbed to the ridgelines of Serre-Chevalier — illustrating the thousand meters of elevation that separate the lower and upper parts of the commune.
How can we connect the history of a village with the landscape through which it has evolved over time? I turned to the map to tell a collection of local stories. It traces the vegetation zones, footpaths, and waterways that shape not only the geography, but also the rhythms of life across generations.
Place names echo with anecdotes, customs, and practices — both ancestral and contemporary.
Anne Perier
a.anneperier@protonmail.com
+33 6 16 82 85 94
@a.nneperier
October 2025
“Botanical Mediation” at Jardin des Cordeliers, in collaboration with Musée Gassendi and CE2–CM students from Joseph Reinach School, including the creation of an educational setup for the future garden. (work in progress)
Juin
Artistic and educational project involving children and early childhood professionals, Francis Barrau Early Childhood Network, in Provence.
June 2025
First Lithographs! @atelier les mains libres
May 2025
Festival de la Camargue et du Delta du Rhône, Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône
May 2025
Language of Flowers, Carré des Arts Gallery, Cotignac, with David Audibert and collective Grafikas
November 2024 - February 2025
I completed training in Woodworking @atelier Sharewood Marseille
September 2024
“Rouvrir le monde”, residency, DRAC PACA — Châteauvert Art Center, with the “Francis Barrau” network of nurseries, Provence Verte.
June 2024
Presentation of the “Terres de Légendes” Residency (Camargue Regional Nature Park) at the Museum of Camargue with CE1 and CE2 students, Jules Vallès School, Arles
Bio + cv
I have developed a practice of exploration and immersion within an environment, progressing through trial and error. I seek to understand a landscape, a field of knowledge, a practice, a craft. I capture images and gather local elements. I enjoy combining tools from various creative domains, I most often attempt to document my process as it unfolds.
I like to think that I am drawing a kind of map, composed of experiences and detours depending on each project undertaken. I frequently compare my background and experiences to a mountain hike, with its terrain, encounters, and various rhythms to compose with.
I studied applied arts at École Boulle, then at ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris), with a focus on Object Design, interspersed with an Erasmus year at Fine Art School of Lisbon, where I began etching and printmaking. At the end of my studies, I moved to the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region of France.
I have benefited from creation and mediation residencies supported by DRAC PACA (la classe l’œuvre, rouvrir le monde, Résidence-Pro- agricultural high school). I was welcomed in residency at Camargue Regional Nature Park and created outdoor works for the "Transhumances Artistiques" in the Hautes-Alpes. I have had the opportunity to showcase my work at the Art Center of Briançon, at the Artagon III and Live exhibitions, at Museum of Camargue, and other exhibition venues. I have also worked for the CAIRN Art Center and the Musée Gassendi in Digne-les-Bains. I spent some time in the vineyards, then worked as a bookseller, and participated in a few film shoots for set design.
CV
Residencies
2023–2024 · Residency at the Camargue Regional Nature Park
2022 · Residency and outdoor installations in Serres & Puy-Saint-André, Hautes-Alpes, France.
2020–2021 · Research and creation residency at Château des Vergers, wine estate in Lantigné, Beaujolais, France
2018 · Creation residency at Domaine des Deux-Îles, Montbazon, France.
2015 · Workshop with designer Pierre Favresse, Centre International d’Art Verrier, Meisenthal (France)
Personal Exhibitions
2024 · Looking through the Reeds, Museum of Camargue (Showcase)
2021 · Vitis Vinifera, Chapel of Château des Vergers, Lantigné.
Collective exhibitions
2015
· Serres Lez’arts exhibitions, with Caroline Solievna, Hautes-Alpes.
· Festival de la Camargue et du Delta du Rhône, Port-St-Louis-du-Rhône.
· Language of Flowers, Carré des Arts Gallery, Cotignac.
· Transhumances Artistiques, Contemporary Art Center, Briançon.
· Habiter discrètement – Éloge de l’observation, IDBL Art School, Digne-les-Bains.
· Artagon Live, Cité Internationale des Arts – Villa Radet, Montmartre, Paris.
· 100% Makerz, La Villette Makerz, Paris.
· Le Dôme Festival, Domaine des Deux-Îles, Montbazon.
· L’EnsAD at Matignon, European Heritage Days, Paris
· Artagon III, Les Petites Serres, Paris
· Meisenthal × ENSAD, D’Days Festival, Habitat 1964, Saint-Ouen
Workshops / Community projects
2025 · “Rouvrir le monde”, DRAC PACA — Châteauvert Art Center, with the children of Mazaugues small village.
2024 · “Rouvrir le monde”, DRAC PACA — Châteauvert Art Center, with the “Francis Barrau” network of nurseries, Provence Verte
2023 · Participation in The “Remarkable Project” (Pro–Villa Medici–Région Sud Residency Program), Carmejane, Vocational Agricultural School, Le Chaffaut.
2022–2025 · Collective Grafikas — Etching and printing workshops with various participants, Reillanne, Luberon.
2022 · EAC Workshops in primary schools of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and teacher training sessions.
2021 · “Rouvrir le monde”, DRAC PACA — Musée Gassendi (Digne-les-Bains) with and summer program in Le Brusquet, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
2020 · “La Classe, l’Œuvre” program — Gassendi Middle School & Maison Alexandra David-Neel, Digne-les-Bains.
2019 · “La Classe, l’Œuvre” program — Borélly Middle School & Musée Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains.
Studies
2012 - 2017 · École Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
2015 - 2016 · Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon, Portugal (Erasmus exchange)
2011 - 2012 · Atelier de Sèvres, Paris (Preparatory course)
2008 - 2011 · École Boulle, Paris, Baccalauréat in Applied Arts
Vocational Training
2024 · Sharewood Marseille - Woodworking and Fabrication Workshop
2024 · Dos Mares - Professional Development for Artists
2023 · Amac/Atelier Millefeuilles, Nantes - Framing One’s Works
Other Experiences
2023 · Visual Arts Teacher, Seyne-les-Alpes Middle School.2020–2023 · Bookseller, La Ruelle Independent Bookstore, Digne-les-Bains.
2018–2021
· Research and archival assistant for the CAIRN Art Center retrospective and publication Flash Back, a Brief History of the Cairn.
· Video production for Maison Alexandra David-Neel and Musée Gassendi.
· Museum mediator, City Museums of Digne-les-Bains.
· Civic Service at CAIRN Art Center — assistance, project coordination with artists, exhibition installation, and mediation
Before 2017
·Le Tarmac, Palais de Tokyo, Paris — Interior design project in collaboration with ENSAD students· Research thesis (ENSAD, 4th year): Futures and Fictions
· Creation of ephemeral tableware for Chef Guy Krenzer, Maison Lenôtre
· Assistant to Emma Pucci (Production Designer) on the short film 3 Buttons directed by Agnès Varda
· Internship with designer Jorge Penadés, Madrid
· Assistant Set Designer, World Brain, a project by Stéphane Dégoutin and Gwenola Wagon
· Workshop and group exhibition with ENSAD students for La Nuit des Musées, Grand Palais, Paris