Photographs taken by Samira ANNAG, Feriguez ASAAD, Almatar KANTE, Ridha GUEFASSA, Lahouaria MOUHNARI, Yvette POSSET, Pawel SOKOLOWSKI, Mina ALAM and Margot FERRI, intern at Stimultania
Artistic intention thought and led by Joseph Gallix, artist photographer
Creation time led over a week in June 2019.
With Sylvie Singh, trainer at CEFI and Sandrine Pigeot, advisor to the local mission.
À Stimultania Givors and in the public space.
Restitution the 18 September 2019.
Intervention carried by Stimultania Photography center.
Implementation thanks to the device Between images carried by the Diagonal network with the support of the Ministry of Culture.
Registered intervention in the cycle Make faces led by Stimultania in the city of Givors, supported by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region within the framework of the FIACRE and by the CGET within the framework of adult relay actions.
Joseph Gallix spent a week working alongside a group of adults learning French and finding work, who were involved in this experience on a voluntary basis. They did not know each other and took up a challenge: to create a common work, mainly photographic, over a given time, in a defined context - Givors.
For five days, they followed the same protocol: gathering around a table, having a coffee or tea, picking out the places and themes of the day, then translating, discussing, philosophizing and finally going out and taking pictures. Thus, they went to meet spaces, urban and natural, men and women, inhabitants and workers of the city. They let themselves be carried away, open to what was offered to them, moving in a familiar but new setting.
They have formed a large set of images, which tells of a collective experience. In the background, it is also the city that we perceive, this city that they have lived for more or less long and that they have come to know.
Production: book Givors t'adore, closed format: 23 × 33 cm, 166 pages, edited in 50 copies, distributed to participants and partners, printed by Ott Imprimeurs / Printot & Ixo Wasselonne, available for consultation at Stimultania Strasbourg and Givors.
Joseph Gallix born in 1991, lives in Brittany. Author photographer trained at the Cantonal Art School of Lausanne, he develops a committed and sensitive work, between documentary and plastic work. Resolutely turned towards the human being, of which he is the discreet observer but full of empathy, Joseph Gallix questions the absence and the loss - of a being, of a home, of a job. No excessive dramaturgy, his approach is gentle and lingers on what lives, what struggles. Nature abounds around Robert who lost Denis (series Darling Darling); smiles on the faces of those who survive in abandoned allotment garden huts (Leman cloudy); Goodyear workers in Amiens who struggle, and live and laugh as their jobs are in jeopardy (The continuous fight).
