As part of the program set up by the City of Cergy for the European Heritage Days on September 18 and 19, 2021, students and young graduates of the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris Cergy (ENSAPC) – Manon Laurent, Sinae Lee, Rudy Levassor, Katia Louis, Shumeng Li, Arthur Motais de Narbonne – have been invited to take over the Park of the House of Anne and Gérard Philipe. Acquired by the post-war icon of French theater and cinema, and the writer in 1954, the bourgeois stone residence was built in the second half of the 19th century in the heart of a 5-hectare park planted with trees. Specifically designed for this green setting on the banks of the Oise River and near Dani Karavan’s Axe majeur, the students’ works and performances explore the links between nature and artifice as well as the history of the location.
