Aurélien Potier’s art seeks the means of representing complex notions, such as the body/mind relationship as well as a certain relationship with the earth and the landscape. These relationships, existing without images, give rise to profound questions for the artist, who is constantly asking himself how to move, where to go, and how to connect himself to his environment. Concerned with an ecology of body/environment relationships, his art shapes questions as constructive as they are melancholic, since the dark appearance of his artworks are not incompatible with an optimistic vision of the future. His time in Lindre-Basse has afforded him the opportunity to delve further into his examination of the body/landscape and deepen his relationship to geology, his fascination for the darkness of caves, as a metaphor for the interior of the body, but also as a place that regurgitates and purges itself. (...)