Photographs taken by students
Artistic intention thought and led by Dominique pichard
Creation time conducted on 20 hours spread over three consecutive days in April 2017.
With Nadège Proriol, plastic arts teacher and Malika Ait-Ouaret, librarian.
Au Picasso vocational school, Givors (69).
Intervention carried by Stimultania Photography center.
Support by the DRAC and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region as part of the Discovery Region Passeurs de culture call for projects.
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It seems that a certain image sticks to the skin of the students of the Picasso vocational school in Givors. What image exactly? Who carries it? A first class micro-technique responds with photography, from cliché to cliché, to laugh at rumors and play with pretense.
Accompanied by the photographer Dominique Pichard, it is first to list the prejudices. The young people draw up a list, we even go so far as to question the others, in particular the students of the general high school which adjoins the vocational high school. First observation: the biggest clichés are mostly spoken by the people concerned.
Then comes the time for photography: to propose a staging to stick to the chosen shot then another which takes the opposite direction. Each successively passes from model, to assistant and photographer. The three days of practice are bubbling, relaxed, joyful yet the subject is serious, and nothing is left to chance.
The final photographs are installed in the passage hall of the school, in the center of a sort of latticed “arena” (the cliché square) inviting passers-by to immerse themselves.
Production: 16 40 × 50 cm prints mounted on PVC; 50 prints 20 × 30 cm; installation on display in the school; 40 10 × 15 cm prints distributed to students.
Dominique pichard publishes in the international tattoo press, in particular for the magazine Rise since 2008. He began a residency at the Humanist Library of Sélestat (under reconstruction) from 2013 to 2017. Dominique Pichard travels in Europe, the United States, Asia or Polynesia, to meet "pioneers, referents and others followers of contemporary tattooing ”, carrying out a sensitive and aesthetic inventory work on a practice that was criticized yesterday and is now widespread throughout the world. These years of documentation in tattooing are the subject of a retrospective in the form of a book edited by Noire Méduse, in 2017. He lives in Strasbourg and Brussels.
