It must be admitted, since the time we heard about this exhibition, we wondered what we were going to be able to find there, the question of the legal entity of natural spaces seeming to us neither exciting nor obvious to stage . But in the end, and this despite the constraints of a rather unattractive space (no opening and low ceiling) the proposal succeeded in winning over our curiosity as to the fact that we must trust the professionals!
The director Corto Fajal, the lawyer Valrie Cabanes and the scenographer Cline Daub have worked together on a device that makes the issues of this question of the law of natural spaces accessible. In the centre, on an elegant wooden structure, are presented the various natural areas for which associations and citizens have taken steps to obtain legal recognition; all around, on the walls, photographs, videos and audio testimonies tell us about some of these ecosystems, their particularities, what threatens them and what is being done to preserve them.
We will be fascinated by a film that follows the Loire from its source, its estuary, and we will no longer doubt, listening to the testimonies of those who live near this remarkable river, that it is indeed a living being. ! A being that influences the character of those who hold it and for which it is necessary to recognize the right to exist, to be preserved and to rule briefly, to be protected, in order to resist the capitalist-industrial invasion of which we are a little too often the accomplices. The testimonies collected thus take us across Europe, from the Corsican river Tavignanu to a strong primary in Poland, to the Rhine and Ireland in short, a magnificent journey into the heart of the cosystems, through the prism of law.
Nature in itself, Nature in law. Sverine Gorlier to Isre Resistance and Deportation Museum ; between free
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