Photographs and texts produced by Yus, Salem, Joseph B., Fabrice, Anis, le M, Bertrand, Smail, Billel, Azedin, Abdallah, Hamed, Fabrice I., Karim, Alexandro.
Artistic intention thought and led by Benoît de Carpentier, photographer and Fabienne Swiatly, writer
Time of photographic and literary creation conducted simultaneously over 36 hours spread over two consecutive weeks in July 2017.
With Estelle Farine, cultural coordinator.
À the Lyon-Corbas remand center.
Restitution the 26 September 2017.
Intervention carried by Stimultania Photography center
Support by the DRAC and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the SPIP of the Lyon-Corbas remand center as part of the Culture / Justice program
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Fabienne Swiatly, Benoît de Carpentier
For the second consecutive year, Stimultania is working with the Penitentiary Service for Integration and Probation of the Lyon-Corbas Remand Center to bring participatory artistic intervention within the prison, mixing disciplines.
Photographer Benoît de Carpentier and writer Fabienne Swiatly do not know each other. They are invited to work together to craft a common proposal, a basic intention to submit to the participating men.
« I was far from expecting. As far as i can ". Fabienne Swiatly's first words thus resonated, the start of an exchange with Benoît de Carpentier who rebounded: “ Far away like a periphery, a space, a look into the distance. Far as the horizon line. »
From there, the bodies began to fly for the photograph. A plastic tarpaulin has become a subject and an open form with infinite interpretation. Bodies flew, limbs opened, gestures amplified - and for that all the space of the gymnasium. Then, everything became minute, small, precise - this time a piece of the table was enough. Small landscapes were thus constructed and on these photographs created, everything returned to the big one, to the horizon, to breathing. Back and forth between the miniature and the vast, lightness and heaviness.
As for the words, they were written in large and small. They dug, first the roots " I just », And then all around, in this suffocating environment, and then very far in search of invented cities. The words were posted on the walls, stood up. And above all they have been said. Every day, at least one reading from Fabienne enriched the time of the workshop.
It was also given a good place to the times of hollow to leave free the word, the gestures, even those which are not useful “for nothing”, or in any case not for the creation. This is also why this type of intervention exists. Even if time flew by, even if the days were intense, exhausting and it had to be built, this work.
In the end, what has been captured is a stealthy but dense energy, that of this precise moment, of this meeting - two artists, an enclosed space and the men who live there. Words and photographs mingle, this is a collective work, a work with several heads, those of the participants and those of the artists, to the point where we can no longer say today who made what, and that's good, since it is assumed.
« You are in prison and you will have to break down the barriers to meet the others. This is not an invented city. »
Production: 10 600 × 900 mm prints exhibited in the socio-cultural building of the Lyon-Corbas remand center in September 2017; 50 boxes composed of 10 posters, 15 photographic postcards and 15 text postcards, 2 leaflets gathering the written texts and 1 explanatory booklet, distributed to participants, artists and partners.
Born in 1964, Benoit de Carpentier lives in Alsace. Graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ESAD) in Strasbourg, painting section in 1989, Benoît de Carpentier is a plastic photographer. His works combine reality and dreamlike, sometimes introspective sometimes turned towards the other, often philosophical and pictorial. In 2002 and 2004 he received the creation aid from the DRAC Alsace for projects around the landscape and architecture. He regularly exhibits his work, mainly in Strasbourg and Paris. He teaches photography and runs photographic projects in schools from elementary to high school.
Born in 1960 in Lorraine, Fabienne Swiatly lives in Haute-Savoie. Fabienne Swiatly has had several hats, several jobs, almost several lives. But always the writing remained present. From novels to essays, including poetry, short stories, theater, his writings take many forms. After having participated in several collective works and published essays, his novel “Gagner sa vie”, published in 2006, was awarded the Léo Ferré prize. Fabienne Swiatly shares her passion and her writings during writing workshops that she leads with many audiences, of various ages and social origins. " Before writing I read. In the order of crossed libraries. I didn't know anything about literature except that I liked it: reading. I was hungry. Then I began to write with fever. Of all. I didn't know anything about writing but I was writing. Then I understood that it was necessary to work and I like this word of writing site. So I got to work. Anyway, I don't know how to do otherwise. I don't know what to do without writing in the face of the complexity of my life and the world. »
