Photographs and sounds made by Droopy, Franklin, JR, Karim, Mike, Mohamed, Momo, Nabil, Philippe M, PS, Ptit Corbeau, Spilberg, The Pekenio, Titi.
Artistic intention thought and led by Rozenn Quéré and Benoît Pelé.
Creation time conducted on 108 hours (54 hours of photographic creation and 54 hours of sound creation carried out simultaneously), spread over three consecutive weeks, in August 2016.
With Barbara Coura, director of SPIP, Estelle Farine and Laure Stoffel, cultural coordinators.
À the Lyon-Corbas remand center (69).
Intervention carried by Stimultania Pole of photography, coordinated with the Penitentiary Service of Integration and Probation of the Rhône, Lyon-Corbas remand center.
Support by the DRAC ARA, the ARA Region and the SPIP of the Lyon-Corbas remand center as part of the Culture / Justice program.
For this first intervention at the Lyon-Corbas remand center, Stimultania invites two artists with distinct artistic universes and practices: a photographer, Rozenn Quéré and a composer - sound engineer, Benoît Pelé. Two cutting-edge and complementary techniques, serving a common project.
On the photo side, behind an illuminated white sheet, the shadow of the bodies unfolds, rolls up, unrolls and interweaves with the others. This is the start of a scene. From there, everything becomes possible: to smoke a cigarette in front of an elephant, to simply become a galaxy or to Abraham telling his story to children, to humbly greet a huge crowd or to be embedded in the screens of Time Square, to conscientiously prepare a potion that is brewed. could magic. It is also possible to fall indefinitely at the bottom of a hole.
On the sound side, we equip ourselves, we listen, we invent. The exploration is multiple and yet, there, there is almost nothing. Then the creaking of a door, a knock on the railing of the staircase, the breath in the hands, pasta in a box. So the hands that clap or the feet that trample. The sound of an empty stapler becomes the magazine of a weapon, a window begins to meow. The collection of sounds expands and turns into music, singular, unique.
Because you have to fend for yourself, do with the means at hand, with the delays and the vagaries, with the heat and a concentration sometimes dotted, each composition, visual and sound, envelops itself in an aura with a particular flavor. , that of the challenge perhaps.
Once images and sounds are assembled, then the story becomes grandiose and everyone will have participated in its construction in one way or another.
Production: 50 books 14 × 21 cm, given to participants; a multimedia work broadcast on the internet and in the internal channel of the remand center.
Benoit Pele was born in 1976, he lives and works in Brussels. “The Fabulophone is above all a jack-of-all-trades guy, Benoît Pelé. Driven by a westerly wind - but also by his instinct and his curiosity - his journey took him from Nantes to Paris, then Brussels. From cinema studies, to sound creation in the field of live performance, via street theater, the production of a short film, the Cave à Son *, music ... For 15 years, according to his experiments, the head and the computer of the Fabulophone filled with sounds: microscopic sounds, enormous din sounds, sounds from above, sounds from below, sounds that sing, sounds that cry, sounds that do not yet exist, burning sounds, frosty sounds, hammer sounds, cotton sounds, synthetic sounds, digital sounds, magnetic sounds… ”.
Rozenn Quere was born in 1981, she lives and works in Brussels. She joined the École Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière where she met Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh with whom she produced Possible and Imaginary Lives, Vevey International Grand Prize for Photography and Discovery Prize of the Rencontres d'Arles in 2013. This project, which is based on the sound recording of interviews with 4 Palestinian women, resulted in the publication of a book published by Photosynthèses and an installation, shown for the first time in Vevey (Switzerland), and subsequently in Bangladesh, Lebanon, France, Canada, Spain, etc. In the meantime, Rozenn has developed a visual universe that is both protean and very personal, always testifying to a mischievous and quirky relationship to the world. Between 2005 and 2010, relying on digital photomontage, she created two books for children, as well as two art books in gravure; she maintains a blog still mixing text and photos, sets up a personal exhibition entitled "Apparitions", and signs the visual universe of an animated series of which she co-directs with the screenwriter Perrine Lottier.
