At the request of Peter Doroschenko, director of Dallas Contemporary, the Pavillon residents took part in a workshop on the notion of borders at Alpine and in the Texan desert, near the border with Mexico. Curated by Estelle Nabeyrat, the exhibition The Lost Art of Travelers gives an account of this experience through works produced on site with extremely limited means and within a very short period of time. The artists thus made works in response to the particular geopolitical context of Rio Grande, trials which they will have all the freedom to develop in the future under different conditions. In this way, Jérôme Allavena presents two round, wooden tables, joined together at the base, with parallel and meridian lines pyrographed over the two surfaces. By placing the tables on the floor, like wheels, Stand by me is as much a reference to travel as it is to cinema and it smuggles in a desire for closeness. Fabrice Pichat, for his part, makes a dried-out branch vibrate almost imperceptibly via a small engine. As for Gintaras Didziapetris, he uses logos, Compass and Bird Space – signs that are applied to the wall like abstract motifs. Here, the lost art of travelers is as much an art of coding, that invites you to decipher it, as an art of flexibility.