Photographs taken by Jordan, Esthebane, Nora, Maëlys, Coralie.
Artistic intention thought and led by Aurore Émaille, visual artist.
Creation time conducted over seven half-days in July 2019.
With the Institut Saint-Joseph, Maison à Caractère Sociale, reception for children and adolescents in social and family difficulties placed by Social Assistance to Children.
In public space, Strasbourg station district, within theScout, Aurore Émaille's artistic laboratory.
Restitution the July 17 2019.
Intervention carried by Stimultania Photography center.
Support by DRAC Grand Est and Réseau Diagonal as part of the new system Between Images carried by the Diagonal Network with the support of the Ministry of Culture.
Jordan, 13, Esthébane, 12, Nora, 11, Maëlys, 12, Coralie, 15, spent a summer week sublimating everyday foods. Melons, bananas, peppers and loaves of bread have become subjects, staged in L'Éclaireur, the traveling artistic laboratory truck of visual artist Aurore Émaille. From there was born a new photographic material, strange, lunar, open to fantasy and dreams.
They also went to meet shopkeepers, grocers, bakers and restaurateurs from the neighborhood to talk about typical dishes, visit the kitchens, and be offered pastries to photograph. They knocked on the doors of residents to be invited to lunch, without success. They escaped the storm, picnicked happily with the food offered by the traders, discussed everything.
They laughed a lot with Gianfranco, an Italian carpenter artist, who came to accompany them in the construction of the tables and benches intended to accommodate the printed photographs. They installed this atypical furniture in the park of the Institut Saint-Joseph, Maison d'Enfants à Caractère Social, on a beautiful sunny afternoon. They presented their work during a final anthology brunch.
"Putting your eyes on the dish is part of a desire to create a common dynamic for a group of young people from the Laiterie district in Strasbourg around the issue of food. It was important for me to promote various culinary cultures by entering family kitchens. Very interested in the aesthetics of shapes, I wanted to bring young people to take a sublimating look at everyday foods and then take an interest in the origin and history of the foods chosen. The project was mainly intended to be documentary while playing with the staging. A mixture of investigation and aesthetic enhancement, reproduced within the Éclaireur, my traveling artistic laboratory truck.
As some of the participants were outside the neighborhood where I had established myself, the basic intention had to be adjusted. Entering families to take photographs in each other's kitchens was becoming complex. So I proposed an exploration of the neighborhood and the shops. Young people were invited to discover the variety of culinary proposals. The project gradually took on another form.”Aurore Émaille.
Production: series of 53 photographs printed and laminated on custom-made wooden furniture (tables, chairs, benches)
Aurore Enamel : Graduated from the Estienne school in Paris in illustration then from the HEAR in visual didactics in Strasbourg, Aurore Émaille is interested in the transmission of knowledge through images and works in particular in the world of visual theater. The images she creates oscillate between the static and the mobile. A true “jack of all trades”, it combines practices (video, photography, installation, performance, drawings) in often collaborative projects.
