Adélie Vertés

Adélie Vertès is a test tube baby, born in Australia from two French parents, and grew up in the southwest of France. She graduated with a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual, and in 2021 she directed her first short film Borage in self-production with Fumigènes Films, inspired by an encounter with an herbalist. Then, she landed at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg, from which she will graduate in 2025.

The work of Adélie Vertès invites us to re-consider in a political way our relationship to the territory, to the landscapes of childhood, to the geographical and social perspectives that defines us, in particular the city-countryside divides. She also works on the notion of care and traditional healing techniques (herbalism, magnetism) in her writings, films and photographs, gleaning and gathering medicinal plants on the outskirts of towns. She is currently working on a documentary following the resistance against the construction of the A69 highway, linking the cities of Toulouse and Castres.