For her first album as both writer and artist, Alice Chemama brings us a funny, powerful and personal story about how life really is in the mountains.
As part of a scholarship program run by Medici Workshops, Alice Chemama finds herself in a valley in the deepest darkest Alps to carry out an artistic project about local heritage with a class of fifth graders.
With not a whiff of clean air or a gleaming summit in sight, the city of Marnaz is located in the depths of the Arve Valley, renowned for its high rate of pollution and for being a leader of the mechanical helix industry. Can’t get much better than that.
Determined to explore the history and culture of the area, and despite the intervention of a surprise guest (bloody coronavirus), she sets out to find the tales and legends buried in the memory of the Alps: what lies behind the bucolic images and tourist activities that monopolize the internet? And what exactly lurks in the shadow of the local celebrity, Mont Blanc?
