Photographs and texts produced by the first bac pro class Support, Care and Personal Services
Artistic intention thought and led by Naohiro Ninomiya, photographer
Creation time conducted on 20 hours spread over 4 consecutive days in December 2016.
With Aurélia Westray, professor of applied arts.
Au Casanova vocational school, Givors (69).
Intervention carried by Stimultania Photography center.
Support by the DRAC and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region as part of the Discovery Region Passeurs de culture call for projects.
Look for memories hidden behind a piece of clothing. Naohiro Ninomiya invites the students to make a photographic and literary portrait of a garment they have chosen. " When you know the weight of the memories, it becomes more difficult to throw away the old clothes. Clothes that have lived for a long time gain the autonomy of a character. »Naohiro Ninomiya
Strange disjointed protagonists or transformed beings, the clothes pose. And next door, in the second improvised studio, it's the creature that we capture: young people suddenly confronted with themselves and with others. Fragile faces that will come to rest on the garment, a film of memory that is added to the fabric, a sensation of a fuzzy, vaporous, uncertain presence, fixed by the photograph.
In parallel with the work on the image, everyone will have written the words that tell the story of the garment. Invented or real stories, always representative and sensitive, read and recorded by the students to accompany the images. A work around the material, that of the fabric and the skin but also the artistic material: photographic, literary and sound. An approach of time, of slowness, of patience.
The production takes several forms: a book and a video montage made by the artist.
Production: 40 books 14 × 21 cm format, 86 pages, distributed to students; sound slide show.
Born in Japan in 1969, Naohiro Ninomiya lives in Strasbourg. He quit his job in a company in 1996 to work on the farm in the Hokkaido region, then moved to France in 1998. There he devoted himself to photography and art, taking lessons from Alain Kaiser at school. of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg. His works in silky black and white, very graphic, express themselves around matter - that of fabric, stone, skin and that of photography. They tell of time, which passes and which is suspended by the photographic act, family ties, the presence of the absent. Naohiro Ninomiya is represented by Galerie Seine 51. He is a member of Stimultania and is part of the exhibition programming committee.
