Installations and photographs made by 122 students from five classes from CP to CM2.
Artistic intention thought and led by Stéphane Billot, photographer.
Creation time conducted over two weeks in October 2020.
With Christophe Vignon, Sarah Roux-Farnoux, Valérie Sertorio, Emile Leclerc and Jean-Luc Simorre, school teachers.
À the school of Brézins (38).
Intervention carried by Stimultania Photography center in partnership with DSDEN Isère.
Support by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Town Hall and the Brézins school.
Initially scheduled for April 2020, Stéphane Billot's intervention at Brézins primary school is postponed due to the first confinement linked to Covid-19. It finally takes place in October, on the eve of the reconfinement. The pandemic and the unprecedented experience we have just gone through are in everyone's mind. The opportunity to explore the experiences and feelings of children, but also to transform reality and evoke possibilities.
To do this, the photographer offers a simple tool: boxes. Lots of cardboard boxes, neutral in appearance and standard size. Boxes like so many construction units. Cards to create situations and play with places. Boxes also to echo the flow of goods and ironically question an economic model that has just revealed its limits.
Over the course of the images - empty of any human presence - a narrative settles down where walled buildings rub shoulders, a living room from which you can no longer escape, a hospital between fortress and crash, mourning, and then also escapes. , gates crossed, roads returned to pedestrians, a relaunched train line, nature rediscovered.
Stephane Billot lives and works in Grenoble. His artistic practice, where performance and installation play a big role, is born from a fine and critical observation of everyday life that he turns and questions with irony and poetry. Stéphane Billot develops an imagination around the "unseen", a term he uses to qualify "not what is invisible but what is hidden, marginalized, not taken into consideration". Thus, it particularly endeavors to explore peripheral or neglected geographic areas, side effects. His interventions are often discreet as much as radical, offbeat as much as committed.
