Photographs taken by 114 students from five classes from the middle section to CE2.
Artistic intention thought and led by Juliette Treillet, photographer.
Creation time conducted on two weeks in April 2022.
With Stéphanie Damaskinos, Katia Coste, Audrey Poigny, Alexandra Collet, Christine Cadu, school teachers.
À Les Castors school, Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs (38).
Intervention carried by Stimultania Pôle de photographie in partnership with the DSDEN of Isère.
Support by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and the town hall of Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs.
Juliette Treillet is invited by Stimultania to carry out this new project in the schools of Isère, carried out in partnership with the DSDEN. A school, in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, five classes from the middle section to CE2 and teachers who are very enthusiastic about the idea of welcoming an artist. The challenge is daunting: a single project that is available for each level.
Juliette Treillet is inspired by her personal practice to think up an artistic proposal around the notion of secrecy. “In my work, I often wonder if the landscape can remember an event that took place on its soil. I also wonder if taking a photo can reveal this event, make it visible. How do you photograph something you can't see? ”
Faced with children, several questions are asked: what is a secret? Who do we share it with? How do you tell someone a secret? Do we have the right to repeat it? Then, the reflections are refined: do the plants, the flowers, the stones have secrets? What are the leaves whispering to each other? Do the trees hear the secrets whispered under their branches?
With these words in mind, comes the escapade: equipped with cameras, the small groups follow one another with the artist to probe the spaces of the school in search of traces, clues, shapes, colors , murmurs. Juliette Treillet says: “Shadows, cracks and footprints have become ghosts, earthquakes and evil monsters. The hiding places have turned into passages, into magic doors. [The children] listened to the ears of the trees, whispered forgotten words to the insects. They searched every corner for life and its secrets.”
The end result, strikingly soft and sensitive, can be found in five large posters, one for each class, distributed to each child, as well as a sound slideshow.
After 3 years of training, Juliette Treillet graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor's degree in photography from the Bloo school (Lyon). She carries out commissioned work for various clients between Lyon and the PACA region, where she is from. At the same time, she develops a personal approach and participates in several collective exhibitions. In 2018, she joined the Collectif Soir, a collective of Lyon artists, organizing group exhibitions combining different works. The same year, she collaborated with the Subterfuge dance company, which offers artistic intervention projects to the inhabitants of several districts of Lyon, in partnership with the “Quartiers de la politique de la ville” scheme. This experience makes him want to join the Diagonal Network's "Intervening Photographer" training program in 2021 to train in image workshops. To continue in a collective approach, she has participated for two years in the design of the magazine Chabe! with the aim of promoting photography in the Lyon area and creating links between the actors of photography in Lyon. “My artistic approach puts in tension the notion of bond and family transmission. I try to fill, through the photographic gesture, the flaws that inhabit my memory and to give substance to what is transmitted, to what is received, to what is hidden from us and what we are hiding from ourselves. Juliette Treillet.