DOUBLE ROSES We are always inhabited by the places of our childhood. They help define the contours of our being in the world, to shape the way we relate to each other, adapt to situations, and learn to know ourselves. This belonging is physically and emotionally rooted. Season after season, we let ourselves be permeated by a landscape and its atmosphere; the hills, the mountains, the meadows become a playground for incessant discoveries, giving free rein to daydreaming, eyes wide open. Children apprehend their environment by participating in its becoming, investigating and wandering with curiosity, testing its limits, indomitable. The colorful landscapes of the Hautes-Alpes offer an abundant nature where shadows and lights occupy large spaces and create intimate territories. In this rural environment children grow up like free birds surrounded by green forests covering the mountains, fragrant flowers and wild plants. ​ Particularly fascinated by this profound connection between the territory and the young people living there, Louise Honée focuses her artistic research in the wide environment of les Hautes Alpes on childhood and adolescence. In her practice, she has developed a privileged relationship with this ephemeral but fundamental period of life, an intense combination of fragility and resilience, which she observes with delicacy, slowly building a relationship of trust, while remaining discreetly at a distance. ​ Honée's work allows to discover youth sensory implication in this world, and their own way of paying attention to each other, of weaving relationships like a nest of twigs. They live together, irrevocably linked to the territory where they grow up. The British anthropologist Tim Ingold would say that Louise Honée's images reveal a certain “poetics of dwelling”.