Thomas Crausaz « Unité 3 »

Valais Noir envisions a hiking trail through a dystopian Valais. The images play with regional clichés, blending familiar landscapes, traditions, and Brutalist architecture within an unsettling technological setting. The black-and-white imagery, with a grain reminiscent of old photographs, creates a temporal disorientation between past and future, tinged with dark humor. *The Manuscript of Lukapirr*, created in collaboration with writer and poet Pierre-André Milhit, unearths fragments of an enigmatic narrative. Drawn from fictional archives gathered in a cave in Mesopotamia, these traces—parchments, artifacts, encrypted documents—span a time more vast than our civilizations. Attributed to an unknown author, they compose a fragmentary mythology, somewhere between archaeological fiction and a cosmic narrative. Finally, again in collaboration with Milhit, the Game of the Goose is rewritten and transformed into a symbolic form. Abandoning the game board, it unfolds as oracular cards, where each image becomes a stage to be interpreted, sketching out a life journey made up of signs and forks in the road. Through these three works, Unité 3 weaves a whole in which memory, fiction, and anticipation intersect, and where the image questions our relationship to time and narratives. www.tharmine.com Opening Reception – Saturday, November 14, starting at 5:00 p.m. On the occasion of Museum Night, join us for the opening reception of Unité 3, an exhibition by Thomas Crausaz that blends memory, fiction, and anticipation through three illustrated worlds: a dystopian Valais, an imaginary archaeological mythology, and a game of the goose reimagined as oracular cards. The evening will continue with a reading from *The Lukapirr Manuscript* by writer and poet Pierre-André Milhit, followed by a performance by NoLem, a Swiss artist known for his melancholic rock sounds inspired by grunge. A bar and traditional raclette will, of course, be on hand! Doors open, bar and raclette: 5:00 p.m. | Official program and welcome drinks: 7:00–7:30 p.m. | Reading: 7:30–8:30 p.m. | Concert: 8:30–9:30 p.m. | Closing: 12:00 a.m. Nolem - Pigs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYyQj7OtEyc Closing Event – December 19, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. An exceptional event awaits you: the convergence of Thomas Crausaz’s artistic world and Maison Maye’s winemaking expertise. On the program: a guided tour of the artworks by the artist, wine tasting, and a dialogue between art and terroir. Free events—reservations required

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