Faire les choses à moitié

In 2017, Stimultania opened a creative residency in the Givors region. Over 9 weeks, an artist is invited to develop his approach, without constraint. This first experience ends with the exhibition of Po Sim Sambath at the Mostra, in September - December 2017.

In 2018, Stimultania continues to experiment: to circulate the works within the public space, throughout the residency. Decompartmentalize, shake up habits, develop a reflection on the presence of artists and works within the city. Stimultania invites a photographer, Benoît Luisière, and a scenographer, Stéphane Castet, who work together to think of the installation at the same time as the creation. Their slogan: "do things halfway". And invite the inhabitants to do the rest.

In November 2018, during the first three weeks of residence, they crisscrossed the city, invested in bars, visited the market. They went to the hairdresser for a regulation cut; have redone the illuminated sign of Helder, the Portuguese restaurateur. They took the pose alongside the managers of the bars of the Société Récréative Portuguaise and the Oran association, now enthroned between the image of the President and the trophies. They met the concierges and the inhabitants of the City of the Stars. They talked about useful photography, interior and exterior, opacity and transparency, of self and identity.

In the second period of creation in February 2019, the artists convince the local correspondent of Le Progrès to publish a fake article presenting them as craftsmen recently installed in Givors, the concierge of the Cité des Étoiles helps in the photographic collection of urban D systems , the caravan makes its first outing in town.

The third period, in April, saw new twists and turns. It is mainly concentrated in the city center, around the Cité des Étoiles, emblematic district of Givors. The Tourist Office is installed on the market square and an installation is made with the inhabitants to broadcast the images of System D. A commemorative plaque falls into the water, the other is inaugurated on the terrace of the Gîte des Oliviers , which hosted the artists for 9 weeks. A "cake" of lighters As in Givors is displayed high up, on one of the collective terraces, and mysteriously torn off 20 minutes later. The laughter that was to follow the course of the Rhône is found once on the roof of the caravan and then another at the tip of the terrace, like the prow of a boat.

Discover the journey of Benoît Luisière and Stéphane Castet as part of their creation residency in Givors:

Benoît Luisiere was born in 1972 and lives in Saint-Gaudens. Coming from a training as a librarian, he appropriates the anonymous and ordinary forms of photography. Since 2015, he has exhibited in Braga (Encontros da Imagem), Lannion (L'Imagerie), Metz (La Conserverie), Toulouse (Château d'Eau), Marseille (FoTo FooT), Memento Auch. It is edited by Filigranes, Galerie 2600, Innocences and published by Gup, DerGreif, Phases Mag, Dienacht, Club Sandwich.

Stéphane Castet was born in 1976 in Brive. He lives in Montauban, works in Toulouse and elsewhere. Graduated in 2002 from the Institut Supérieur des Arts in Toulouse with the congratulations of the jury, Stéphane Castet is an artist whose sense of the collective leads him to go beyond the threshold of personal creation to imagine with others and for others. Since 2012, he has been a member of the IPN collective and associate artist at TA Toulouse. At the same time, plastic artist, scenographer, maker of works, “this scrambler of genres” makes the artistic domain his playground where only creation and its first essence prevail. He has collaborated with many institutions in the field of contemporary arts such as Printemps de Septembre, Le Ciam, La fabrique, Calvi on the rock, Le Parvis, the nomadic art center, or, more recently, worked as a manager. artistic Memento (New Departmental Space for Contemporary Art). He also designs the scenographies of the exhibitions of the poster museum in Toulouse. Invited to numerous contemporary art events and exhibitions (Bricodrama, Lectoure Art and Photography Center, Tournecoupe typographic route) Stéphane Castet develops his artistic practice of DIY around a humorous reflection on our popular and contemporary practices.