Collections

The proposal made to the children of the Jean Moulin school in Voiron (38) is inspired by a gesture: gathering. A practice from which the artists Marion Bornaz and Émilie Capato wanted to adopt regarding forms of attention and proximity with the living in the environment close to the school. Gathering requires appealing to one's sensitivity as when making an image. All the senses are awakened. There is something very primary in this connection to the living. It asks us to take the time to observe, to learn to see.

As artists, they also found themselves united around this verb. As an illustrator, Émilie observes shapes and seeks to simplify them in order to reproduce them. As a photographer, Marion scrutinizes and frames the world around her to give it meaning or reinvent it. Two practices that lead to the same ecology of attention in their approaches.

Through various photographic games and print practices, the four classes created a collection of around a hundred images made up of photos, prints (plants, stamps, etc.) and stamped photographs.

In photography, Marion has developed several approaches:

Using botanist magnifying glasses and then macro photography, the students immersed themselves in the miniature world and plant forms.

The CM2 students made a series of fictitious objects that could be used for gathering (glasses, pruning hook, knives, pencil, hat, compass, etc.) from plant materials collected in the area near the school, which they then staged.

The CP-CE1 students freely explored the surroundings with their cameras before returning to the studio and staging, through portraits, the five senses.

The CE1s had fun recognizing the surrounding vegetation by documenting it.

The restitution was imagined in the form of a large collection of images, during which each student chose ten visuals to take with them.

The collections © Marion Bornaz, Émilie Capato and the students of the Jean Moulin school in Voiron (38)

A photographer since 2016, after initially working in the performing arts, Marion Bornaz has developed a perspective on forms of intimacy. Her personal work, drawing on the banality of everyday life, has been exhibited over the years in several series.Sensations, The heart is a muscle (Aurillac Media Library, Mapraa, in Lyon, etc.). In 2020, a first self-published book was published, A Forest, born from a text by Jeanne Beltane and her journey of resilience after the attack. She exhibited the photographs at the Pierrevert festival in 2021 and at the La Mare gallery in Lyon in 2022. She continued her research by learning screen printing with work on her concert archives “There is a light that never goes out " She is undertaking a territorial residency in Beaujolais in 2023 during which she focuses on the relationship between breeders and animals. She is also developing artistic intervention projects (Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Stimultania, le Rize, etc.). In 2014, she created the Atelier des regards, a project for the exchange of photographic practices and support. Also a commissioned photographer, she regularly collaborates with the cultural sector.

Trained in graphic design and publishing, Émilie Capato graduated in 2012 with a Higher Diploma in Applied Arts and now works in Lyon as an illustrator under the name atelier mio. Alongside her work as a designer, she develops an artistic and craft practice through embroidery and linocutting, two mediums that nourish and enrich her illustrations. Her work today focuses on still life and the representation of table scenes in bright, saturated colors that celebrate the beauty and simplicity of everyday objects and the way they can tell stories about our lives, our culture, and our history. Cooking, like drawing, are daily pleasures, have been at the center of all her attention since her early childhood. For her, eating well is essential to her joy and balance, and so is drawing. Inspired by her family heritage of bon vivants, her Proust madeleines, and the seasons, she showcases the everyday table, local produce, and seasonal fruits and vegetables, around which we love to gather to share a good time. Her favorite technique remains relief engraving, a completely artisanal printing process that works like a stamp. She shares this expertise during three-hour introductory sessions in her Lyon workshop.