D'ici Fessenheim replicates and extends Élise Alloin's artistic research in the Fessenheim area, following the shutdown in 2020 of France's oldest nuclear power plant and the first in a series of dismantling operations to come.
After seven years of operation and forty-three years of electricity production—the equivalent of a professional lifetime—the plant's retirement leaves a complex and divisive political context into which the artistic work has stepped, at the complicit invitation of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. The body of work designed around the specific situation of Fessenheim, and the contributions of the book's authors, highlight the issues of nuclearized territories. This atlas redeploys these issues, helping us all to think about the next twenty years of dismantling.
Élise Alloin (born 1971 in Paris, lives and works in Strasbourg) is developing her visual work as part of a dynamic of research through art, in particular by exploring the links we have with radioactivity. How does this "invisible" element shape our awareness of place? Our relationship with time? social memory and the transformation of living things? Her cross-disciplinary practice is developed in collaboration with teams of researchers in nuclear physics, life sciences and the humanities.
