ILE DE VASSIVIERE.- From March 13 to June 19 2011, Bethan Huws, who has been living and working in Paris for the past twenty years, will be showing her first monographic exhibition in France, Black and White Animals, at the Centre international d’art et du paysage and in the Vassivière Island sculpture park. The exhibition interweaves her various inspirations from her childhood memories in Wales to her experience on the Plateau des Millevaches (Limousin, France) where she is making a film commissioned by the French Culture Ministry for 5,25, a contemporay art network based in Limousin. After the exhibition at Vassivière, her films will be shown at the Frac Limousin during the summer. Through artistic references and a witty use of language, Black and White Animals brings an unexpected poetry to the landscape—even for the regular visitor of Vassivière. The artist playfully re-reads the work of a 20th century e