Characters and photographs made by the students.
Artistic intention thought and led by Aurore Émaille and Leïla Fromaget, visual artists.
Creation time conducted simultaneously over two weeks in March-April 2019.
With Catherine Guillerme, director, Aude Canivet, Lydie Freymont, Gaëlle Olagnon and Marie Martins, school teachers.
À Henri Barbusse school in Saint-Martin d'Hères (38).
Restitution at the end of the creation time, April 4, 2019.
Intervention carried by Stimultania Photography center in partnership with DSDEN Isère.
Support by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the Henri Barbusse school.
Explorer: Who travels for a given purpose. Who scrutinizes a place or domain to discover someone or something there, particularly studying sight, touch or an equivalent system that reports on it.
Adventurer: Who goes at random, looks for the unexpected. Who likes risk and engages in expeditions, sometimes by unscrupulous processes, generally in search of discovery, experience or glory.
“Explorer sees, adventurer lives.”
Exploration and adventure are two terms whose interpretations intersect. Inhabited by these subjects in their artistic research, Aurore Émaille and Leïla Fromaget of the collective The Sound of the Eyes propose to the four classes of the Henri Barbusse school to study these two concepts with them.
By putting in parallel the figures of the pupil and the child with those of the explorer and the adventurer, they invite to participate in the creation of two characters taking the form of two “puppet costumes”, made only thanks to school paper waste and the collection of starch. Each chooses one of the five senses related, according to her, to the notion that she is working to conceive one of the characters and to train the children in its construction. The two large masks come to life through the manipulation of children, crisscross the school space and meet during photographic and video staging.
Production: a collective collage on a school wall, a video edited by Aurore Émaille (broadcast on the last day then on the internet), a flipbook designed by Leïla Fromaget published in 200 copies, distributed to students and partners, available for consultation at Stimultania Strasbourg and Givors.
Aurore Enamel : Visual artist, Aurore Émaille graduated from HEAR in Strasbourg. She is interested in the transmission of knowledge through images and works in the world of visual theater. A true “jack of all trades”, it combines installation, video, sculpture, performance and drawing.
Leila Fromaget : Graduated from HEAR in Strasbourg, Leïla Fromaget develops a practice between documentary, photography, graphics and publishing.
Both followed the training of the Center Des Plasticiens Intervenant (CFPI) and since 2013 have been leading artistic projects with audiences. They build the collective The Sound Of Eyes in order to carry out interdisciplinary projects in various places and with various audiences.
