Created in 1992 in Port Saint Louis du Rhône, the National Center for Street Arts and Public Space (CNAREP) – Le Citron Jaune is a multidisciplinary artistic and cultural project dedicated to the relationship between arts, ecology and territory. In the singular geographical context of the Rhône delta, the CNAREP welcomes artists who create with and for public spaces and deal artistically with economic, social and political issues related to our ecological situation. At the crossroads between arts and sciences, the action of the national center co-constructed with a plurality of actors.
Thought as an open-air laboratory, Le Citron Jaune is first and foremost a place of residency and support for contemporary creation where living arts and visual arts meet and mingle. It is also a territorial project. As such, artistic teams are invited to create in situ, from the local ecological and social context, with and for the inhabitants of Port Saint Louis du Rhône, where Le Citron Jaune is located, but also more widely. of the Camargue, the Alpilles and the western communes of L’Etang de Berre. Thus since 2021, on the scale of this geographical area, Le Citron Jaune team and the artistic teams hosted have been working on questions related to our food methods, our ways of inhabiting spaces and living between humans and non- humans. Through an approach that crosses and hybridizes cultural action, dissemination and artistic production, we make sure that everyone feels they belong to this individual and collective adventure and becomes an actor of the project.
