Photographs taken by Mathis, Dorian, Laurie, Marilou, Alexandre, Léo, Ibrahim, Léa, Mirlanda, Mehdi, Maïlys, Camille, Angélica, Savinien, Sohane, Feryel, Laure, Kilian, Rémi, Anis with Joseph Gallix, photographer
Texts written by Maïlys, Camille, Arnaud, Ibrahim, Mirlanda, Angélica, Mehdi, Léa
with Carole Fives, writer
Artistic intention thought and led by Joseph Gallix, photographer
Creation time conducted on 100 hours of photographic creation and 30 hours of literary creation
With Cité Scolaire Elie Vignal: Damien Coursodon, head of school, Jean-Pierre Ducher, documentalist, Arnaud Vernay, professor of mathematics and principal professor of cardiology, Louis Pradel Hospital, Gwenaelle Le Gorrec, professor of SVT cardio, Myriam Sibut, professor of French cardio, Nathalie Jouffre, English teacher, Laurence Bossy, French teacher in 2nd class, Nathalie Duponchel, French teacher in 2nd class, Bénédicte Leclercq, professor of physical sciences.
Unit 40 Louis Pradel Hospital: Séverine Vincent, Pediatric Health Officer Unit 40 Congenital heart disease in children and adults PAM Heart Lung Metabolic
Elodie Dumas, early childhood educator Unit 40.
Intervention carried by Stimultania Photography center, coordinated with the Elie Vignal school complex and the cardiological service of the Louis Pradel hospital.
Support by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Health Agency, Interstices, as part of the Culture and Health program, the Lyonnais Civil Hospitals, the Elie Vignal School City, the Rectorate Academy of Lyon.
The mission of the Cité Scolaire Elie Vignal is to ensure the continuity of the school career of sick and / or disabled students. Its teachers teach there both in the establishment in Caluire-et-Cuire but also in various hospital services in the Lyon region, as is the case in the U.40 pediatric cardiology service of the Louis Pradel hospital. in Bron. The result of an exchange between teachers and doctors, managers and educators in the service, the project of an artistic residency intervention was born. The objectives: to link the two structures and involve the young patients in a common project, to open the imagination, to get out of everyday life, to project oneself.
Stimultania offers for this project a meeting between photography and writing. Joseph Gallix, a young committed and sensitive photographer, guides the young participants in the realization of the photographic material and Carole Fives, writer, accompanies to pose the words. Images and texts to build a new world. With what is around, the hospital room, the objects, the classroom, the hallways, etc. Become both the inventor and the explorer, to draw the contours of this land and those who inhabit it.
Work together, even remotely, because it is in the regular return trip between the productions carried out in the hospital and those in the school city, that this new planet is being built. In the hospital, we imagine a world with three suns, one blue, one green, one red. At the school city, we describe the people living under each of these stars. And we add the one who has none, the star, the people of the night. The people we are suspicious of. And who, back in the hospital, will become a strange being, half cyborg rat, half human in the cat-head T-shirt.
The material thus grows little by little, full of experiences, full of experimentation and trial and error. An exploration made of meanders, uncertainties and beauty that suddenly emerges. And then there you go, we won't know everything about this world, we will have just touched the reliefs but it is in these bridges, sometimes random, these rapprochement between productions, between words and images, that the imagination and the fantasy will be able to find accommodation.
"When I landed on this corner of the planet, I had to find a crack in this icy and black atmosphere that covered it to enter it. Inside there was hardly any light, just a few phosphorescent flowers and a small yellow moon in the sky of this locked up world. I felt weird looking at this moon that didn't really light up the country. I knew that being born at night had consequences.”Extract from the text of Léa, second year student at Elie Vignal school with Carole Fives
"The social organization of this people is like a dictatorship, there is a leader who has all the powers and the others must be silent and obey. Usually they spend most of their time eating. These people have never seen the light emitted by one or more suns, the only light they have never seen is the light of the moon. If by misfortune they came in contact with the rays of the sun, they would burn until they became ashes. They communicate with each other in a very strange way, they only have to touch each other with their fingertips to understand each other. I estimate their lifespan at 200 years. I named this people the Kagakuro. ” Miranda, second year student at Elie Vignal school with Carole Fives
Production and distribution: 120 books, 112 pages, 21 × 28 cm, square back glued. 50 prints 40 × 60 cm of the double pages of the book exhibited at the Cité Scolaire and the cardiology department.
Born in 1991, lives in Mâcon. Joseph gallix is an author photographer trained at the Cantonal Art School of Lausanne. He develops a committed and sensitive work, between documentary and plastic artist. Resolutely turned towards the human being, of which he is the discreet observer but full of empathy, Joseph Gallix questions the absence and the loss - of a being, of a home, of a job. No excessive dramaturgy, his approach is gentle and lingers on what lives, what struggles. Nature abounds around Robert who
lost Denis (Darling Darling series); Goodyear workers in Amiens who struggle, and live and laugh while their jobs are in jeopardy (The Struggle Continues).
Born in 1971, lives in Lyon. Holder of a bachelor's degree in philosophy, the Higher National Diploma of Fine Arts and Femininity, scenario workshop, Carole Fives begins to write “to explain his work as a painter” and has not stopped since. She publishes novels for adults and children's literature. “Let Our Lives Look Like a Perfect Movie” has received several awards. These books are published by Le Passage, Points Seuil, Invenit, Gallimard, Sarbacane, L'École des loisir. Around her writing activity, Carole Fives leads literary creation workshops for various audiences (art schools, museums, media libraries, hospitals, high schools, colleges, primary schools, kindergartens, associations). One of his high school projects gave rise to a publication “Shame of everything”, editions Thierry Magnier, 2013.