The municipality of Nendaz welcomed the Swiss artist Antoine Guignard, also known as LPVDA, to create four monumental murals on the façades of barns in Basse-Nendaz (Borné Chë) and Haute-Nendaz (Chemin des Bornes).

Through this project, the local council aims to showcase its architectural heritage and foster a dialogue between contemporary art and local identity. The artworks, created directly on the barns' wooden structures, thus blend seamlessly into the landscape and Nendaz's heritage

Antoine Guignard is internationally renowned for his use of ‘street-sanding’, a technique that involves revealing an image by sanding the wood directly, without adding any paint. The sanding process brings out the wood’s various natural colours and grain, giving the works their sepia tones and a particularly distinctive appearance.

A former graffiti artist, the artist developed this approach by exploring the artistic potential of the wooden façades of Swiss chalets. His work has taken him across Switzerland, France, Sweden, Morocco, Ireland, England, Chile and Russia, as part of numerous international festivals and art projects.

His work was particularly recognised in 2023, when his mural created at the Frauenfeld Street Art Festival was named one of the ten most innovative projects in the world in Street Art Cities’ ‘Best Mural Innovation of the World’ ranking.

In Nendaz, the murals pay tribute to local figures who have left their mark on the village’s history, through portraits of men and women inspired by people familiar to the locals. It is an original way of bringing together local memory, heritage and contemporary artistic creation.