Photographs taken by Zackary, Mathilda, Inès, Juliette, Valentin, Léo, Lorélia, Lucas, Elena, Jules, Louane, Maëlisse, Louise, Chloé, Emma, Flavie, Cyrian, Augustine, Léna, Ivan, Yanis, Lucie, Flora, Marcelline, Lily, Lénaëlle, Coleen, Arthur, Noa, Amandine, Elisa, Maïa, Angela, Maewenn, Valentine
Intervention led and led by Mathias Zwick and Melanie Wenger
Creation time conducted over 20 hours between October 2022 and January 2023
With Marie-Noëlle CONREAUX, Véronique FOURNIER, Xavier GASCHY, professors of optional History of the Arts courses and Loris BOUGUETTOUCHA, intern photographer, student at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin.
Production : 24 prints exhibited at the Lycée Docteur Koeberlé (COREP)
Intervention carried out by Stimultania
With the support of the Ministry of Culture via the Pass Culture scheme.
In May 2022, the Plastic Arts teachers of the Doctor Koeberlé high school contact Stimultania to support the project of a second and final year class option and Art History specialty. A bias quickly emerged, that of involving artists: the Stimultania team then proposed to Mélanie Wenger and Mathias Zwick of the Inland cooperative (a structure dedicated to long-term documentary photography throughout the world) to lead a collective creation time between October 2022 and January 2023.
Themes come up during the discussions between photographers and students: the difficulty of coping with academic pressure, the anxiety caused by a society in which we do not always recognize ourselves and which we nevertheless inherit, the obligation to project ourselves after high school while we are in full identity construction. These questions accompany the creation of images around a watchword: “over-representation of oneself”. All the photos produced gathered under the title “Dystopies oniriques” have been on display since May 4 at the Sélestat high school.
Melanie wenger is a freelance documentary photographer based in Brussels for ten years from Colmar. A graduate of Letters and a Masters in journalism, she is National Geographic Explorer and develops long-term documentary projects for which she travels the whole world. She also publishes En in the international magazine press. Her work questions the limits of photography and targets social and environmental themes. In 2019, she founded, with twelve other international photographers, the cooperative inland, a structure dedicated to long-term documentary photography around the world.
Born in 1990, Mathias Zwick is a French photographer based in Strasbourg and working regularly in Paris. Member of the international cooperative inland and the agency Hans Lucas, he works around French current events by drawing on cinematographic references, poetry and humour. His work is published in the French and international press such as Le Parisien, Liberation or The Independent or Vice.