The interaction between artistic research and the mountain environment has been central to the construction of Alpine imaginaries since the eighteenth century.
Often intertwined with scientific exploration, artistic practice has shaped the ways in which mountains are represented, understood, and inhabited. Mountains have served as both subject and catalyst of cultural and aesthetic transformation, from the early acts of knowledge and depiction that revealed the morphology of the Alpine peaks to the modern notion of a technological sublime.
In the contemporary era, as climate change continues and a redefinition of human dwellings emerges, the Alps have once again become a laboratory for experimentation where art interrogates form, material, and temporality. Through processes of representation and metamorphosis, artistic research opens new perspectives on the Alpine landscape, challenging clichés and proposing renewed ways of perceiving and inhabiting high-altitude worlds.
