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Arctic, winter 2027
Cultivate wonder
A polar explorer guides artists on skis to the foot of a mountain whose real name no one remembers.
Scroll to discover the projectWhat Nammásj means
“Nameless”
In Sámi tradition, this mountain was so sacred that its name was never spoken. Kept silent for so long, it was lost. The expedition was born from that story.
By the way, it’s pronounced a bit like “nah-mash”. Everyone trips over it the first time, us included.
The project
Cultivate wonder, through art.
We believe we look after what fills us with wonder. Moufid is a polar explorer. At the end of winter, he is taking four artists to one of the wildest corners of Europe, far from what usually inspires them.
They will spend about nine days there, then tell what they bring back, each with their own tools: the film camera, the stills camera, the pencil, the cello and the voice. And share it as widely as possible, so that the wonder also reaches those who will never go there.
For a destination, we chose a sacred mountain, so remote and so revered that its name ended up being lost. It intrigues us, and it humbles us.
If you feel the same, come and do it with us.
The team
One explorer, four artists
Moufid knows the Far North by heart. For Hugo, Monsif, Laura and Juliette, it will almost be a first.
Meet the team- The explorer Moufid Taleb He sets the route and looks after everyone.
- Images and story Hugo Paradis He films and tells the adventure from the inside.
- Images Monsif Taleb Camera on his shoulder, skis on his feet.
- Drawing Laura Lhuillier She will draw what the Far North inspires in her.
- Music Juliette Saumagne She will bring the Sarek back in music.
The expedition
On skis through the Sarek
Late winter, in the heart of the Sarek: boreal forest, tundra, frozen lakes, reindeer and ptarmigan. We will have to learn to pull a pulka, live with the cold, and take whatever the Arctic is willing to show us.
The route, the land, the live tracking- 9
- days or so, self-sufficient
- 5
- people on skis
- 4
- artists’ eyes
- 1
- nameless mountain
Where art comes in
One landscape, four ways of seeing
We come from very different artistic worlds, but we have all created from cities, festivals, places full of people. Never from somewhere this wild.
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Up there, the slightest sound takes up space: the wind, the snow squeaking under the skis, the tent fabric flapping at night. And between two gusts, a silence we never hear at home. Juliette is going with her ears wide open.
In the Sarek, the landscape sometimes comes down to a single line: a ridge, the horizon, a fox’s tracks in the snow. Laura is bringing what she needs to follow it with the tip of her pencil.
The sun stays low all day. Shadows stretch out and the white changes colour from hour to hour, from pink to blue. For a photographer’s eye, everything has to be learned again.
The effort, the cold, the fits of laughter at camp, the long hours gliding in silence: what happens between us matters as much as the scenery. We keep the camera close at hand.
With Nammásj, we are looking for inspiration where we have never looked before. We will see what comes of it.
What we are going there to findLogbook
Where are we at?
6 steps completed since the first meeting. Right now: gathering support.
Follow the logbookEach new step is shared on Instagram first. Follow @moufid_taleb
- Hugo and Moufid meet (done)
- The expedition takes shape (done)
- Monsif joins (done)
- A sacred mountain as destination (done)
- Laura joins (done)
- Juliette joins (done)
- Gathering support (in progress)
- Getting ready (to come)
- Setting off (to come)
- In the Sarek (to come)
- Coming home (to come)
- Thank you to everyone who carried us (to come)
- Telling the journey (to come)
- And then? (to come)
● Next step: raising what we need to set off
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