Adopting the format of a 19th-century travel journal, Nicolas, Jonathan and Ingrid combine their notes, sketches, maps, prose and poems to co-create a series of fictions, creative nonfictions and speculative stories in response to the travels of the French anarchist geographer Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), who spent time in Ireland and Louisiana.

Nicolas Desverronnières is a French artist. He explores the notion of landscape through actions and representations that contribute to its transformation. His installations combine forms inspired by architecture, botany and cartography, thus revealing the complex interactions between different forms of the living world.

Jonathan radbwa faroush Mayers is a Louisiana Creole artist who grew up in Istrouma, or Baton Rouge, Louisiana. For his work, he draws specifically on his cultural and linguistic heritage of Kouri-vini (Louisiana's endangered Creole language) and Louisiana French. Mayers paints pictures and writes stories of beasts and mythological monsters in familiar landscapes. He incorporates these same physical landscapes into his work, for which he also uses mud and other natural materials taken from his everyday environment.

Ingrid Lyons is an Irish writer and musician. Her research into the fiddle music and storytelling of south-west Donegal links her to the rich creative heritage rooted in the landscape and history of rural Ireland. Drawing on her extensive experience and sensitivity to the ethics of fieldwork, Lyons produces literary fictions and soundscapes that combine autobiography, biography, folklore and critical analysis.

Centre SAGAMIE welcomes artists Nicolas Desverronnières, Ingrid Lyons and Jonathan “radbwa faroush” Mayers as part of a partnership with Diagonale.

Their exhibition Entre chien et loup is currently presented at Diagonale until May 31.