Photographs and texts produced by students
Artistic intention thought and led by Émilie Saccoccio, artist photographer
Creation time conducted on 40 hours spread over two weeks in January, February 2017.
With Carine Saint-Michel and Geneviève Pacalet, primary responsible trainers
À La Palma Family House, Arbresle (69)
Intervention carried by Stimultania Photography center.
Support by the DRAC and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region within the framework of the Découverte Région, Passeurs de culture call for projects.
« Suspend the gesture and explore its poetic dimension. Pay attention to the gestures of another, use the words to describe. Remember, replay this gesture. Walk. Capture the gesture suspended by photography. »Émilie Saccoccio.
Émilie Saccoccio went to meet 48 young people in training at the Maison Familiale Rurale La Palma de l'Arbresle. They are moving towards service professions, professions where the gesture is at the center. Care, support, automatic, precise or gentle gesture. Together, they will take the time to question it, perhaps push it back to its limits and reveal a new essence.
"What is an important gesture?“. Simple question, and yet. “When does the gesture of care turn into a poetic or personal gesture?“. Each class will have its own field of exploration.
"The gesture is first of all a relation to what one has received at the different stages of one's life. I wanted to explore what is happening in the middle, to hear these beings whose care work confronts them with different generations, to talk to me about the journey of their gestures, from their intimacy, their exchanges with others to the professional sphere.Ӄmilie Saccoccio.
The project will be carried out at two speeds: the whirlwind of additional free exercises that the students carry out independently, a certain slowness during the time with the artist. This slowness is installed by walking, in search of the decoration which will be used for the gesture, then in the composition and the manufacture of the silver image. The photograph then becomes latent, you will have to wait to see the result.
"What remains of the images is this link, this collision. It is from this idea that we started our work, it is not a question of naturalness in these photographs, but of giving material to something still unknown. We want to surprise the viewer, make him want to stop. The people who play these gestures have a particular history with "the gesture". The most harmless sometimes turns out to be the richest, the most evocative. Let go of the body, give it the right to speak for us, trust its memory. And let ourselves be carried away by what he says.Ӄmilie Saccoccio
Production: two A5 format booklets, 24 pages, on munken paper, printed by Ooblik, in 40 copies each; 24 silver prints 13 × 18 cm inserted in the booklets; slideshow and performance reading during the restitution at MFR La Palma on May 9, 2017.
Born in 1989, Emilie Saccoccio lives between Paris and Lyon. After a bachelor's degree in Plastic Arts, specializing in photography and video at St-Étienne in 2010, Émilie Saccoccio continued her artistic course at the Superior School of Art of Lorraine - Graphic Design, Image and Narration, from which she graduated in 2012 and then at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin, DNSEP Art objet in 2015. In 2012, it obtained the Rotary prize, 1st photography prize from the Lorraine and Meurthe et Moselle art schools; in 2013 the Vortex prize as part of the Rencontres des Ecoles d'Art du Grand-Est. She exhibits in Nancy, Dijon, Mulhouse, Strasbourg and Mexico where she carries out two of her projects ("Reyes" and "Neblina"). She uses photography and video in an artistic approach that questions common representations (family ties, the relationship with death, language, work) to find accommodation in the interstices of interpretation, a sensitive, vibrant interpretation, dreamlike.
