Réservoir #5 de la Comté : Né quelque part…

Photographic exhibition, portraits of Charles Rostan Reservoir #5, of the County, "Born somewhere..." Video portraits of faces of Viscounts, more retrospective, large formats, by Charles Rostan with an original scenography. Keep your eyes peeled!

The history of circulation, mobility and exchanges between populations is constitutive of human history. Like all countries in the world, the French territory has been nourished by these flows of populations and bears within itself the traces of those who have crossed it, left or settled there, coming from Europe, former colonies or the rest of the world. Today, nearly a third of French people are immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants.

As elsewhere, Vic-le-Comte has been a land of welcome and refuge for populations often fleeing a situation of despair: Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, populations from the Maghreb. Let us also mention the Kurds. In August and September 1988, fleeing chemical weapons bombings by the Iraqi air force, tens of thousands of Kurds first took refuge in Turkey in camps near the Iraqi border. Following Ms. Mitterrand's visit, France decided to welcome them collectively on its soil and grant them the right to asylum. Many families then found refuge in Vic le Comte.
Larousse, the foreigner, is the one “who is from another nation; by extension: who is not family, who does not belong to the same group; which is not related to; which is not of the same nature. The foreigner is the one who is not.
Charles Rostan went to meet Viscount families who, like him, had experienced exile. He listened to their story, facilitated the exchange, created connections and trust.
Charles Rostan wants to draw the viewer's attention to the one we don't want to see. The stranger thus becomes the one who is.

Cartel / Cyrille Fayolle, historian, elected to La Culture de Vic-le-Comte.

• Adapted tourism: Wheelchair accessible with assistance, Independent wheelchair accessible, Site, fully accessible building, Possibility of dropping someone off in front of the site, Reception staff aware of welcoming people with disabilities

• Exhibition

• French