This is the story of Jacques and Marion Granges. A farming and wine-growing couple living at an altitude of 890 metres. Jacques, an agricultural engineer, and Marion, a gardener, cultivate their land biodynamically, a form of agriculture based on two pillars. The first is the use of plant, mineral and animal substances to stimulate growth, and the second is the use of cosmic forces and cycles, paying particular attention to lunar cycles, the influence of the stars and the rhythms of nature.

This same nature that they have placed at the heart of their concerns since 1970 has made them an atypical couple living to the rhythm of the seasons. On the heights of their estate called ‘Beudon’, detached from the plain, they observe the distant hustle and bustle of the world and look after their land as their greatest asset.

In La mécanique céleste, I take a look at this mysterious planet where nature has regained power over man. The photographs play with materials, light and objects, like cosmic explorations in the heart of the Valais. Jacques and Marion, the two magicians from Beudon, have not only succeeded in combining science and conscience, but have also given new life to the slowness that has been lost to our society, a slowness that is so good, making way for the rhythm of life, the breath of the wind, the shadows of the night, a new temporality that goes beyond the passing of time and leaves room for everything that lives, quite naturally.