Photographs and texts produced by the 34 second year students.
Artistic intention thought and led by Muriel Joya, photographer and visual artist.
Creation time conducted on 20 hours spread over 11 half-days, in March and April 2016.
With Sophie Lefebvre, French teacher.
Au general high school Aragon, Givors.
Intervention carried by Stimultania Photography center.
Support by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region as part of the Discovery Region Passeurs de culture call for projects.
Starting from the collection “Les mains Libres”, a dialogue drawn and written by Man Ray and Paul Eluard, the artist Muriel Joya and the high school students gave substance to the words. From drawing to text, to photography, to space. The challenge is to give shape to what resonates when reading the text. To emotions, reflections, thoughts.
« It is necessary, here, to put the words into play (game of staging, shaping, imaging) to better offer an interpretation. Build together a series of images whose central character is the text“. Muriel Joya
Each group will have a paragraph, making up the fragment of this dreamlike whole.
Production: a blog; posters pasted in town during the closing event of the five intervention projects carried by Stimultania in Givors in 2015-2016.
Muriel Joya is a plastic photographer, member of the La Glacière collective. Trained at the Higher School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, she lives and works in Lyon. His projects, regularly exhibited in France and abroad, question, among other things, space, displacement, memory. “The objects that Muriel Joya deals with in her works often have in common that they belong to the specter of the ordinary; tenuous things, details bordering on the imperceptible, which would not necessarily hold our attention apart from the artistic intention. »Michael Verger-Laurent, 2014. In addition to her practice, Muriel Joya regularly leads workshops and workshops for various audiences.
