8 week residency,
from February 09 to March 08
and from 02 to 29 May 2022.
Artist residency supported by the Ministry of Culture within the framework of the Capsule system.
With the support from the gîte An olive tree in the stars.
Winner of the 5 2021-star call for projects, Delphine Gatinois, photographer and visual artist living in Reims, went to meet the club of rescuers-jousters of Givors for a project around an emblematic sport practice, present on the territory. since many years.
During her creation residency in 2022, Delphine Gatinois came to Givors several times and took a close interest in the world of nautical jousting. She started by following the French Championships, at the end of August 2021, in Chavanay, even if she knew that this first immersion – too spectacular – would be the exact opposite of her project: she was thus entering into a traditional sporting practice to grasp it. gestures and vocabulary.
At the heart of his project, there are several sub-parts including: Carry the archive. Archive images tracing the evolution and preservation of this practice are transferred to sportswear. These clothes, then worn by the jousters, make it possible to speak of transmission, of filiation but also, perhaps more implicitly, of resistance.
During her residency, Delphine Gatinois wanted to imagine a collective adventure with the members of the Lifeguards Club of Givors and with other jousters, further along the Rhône. These phases of encounters, shooting, manipulation and loan of sports equipment, but also these phases of promises and expectations were an integral part of the artist's experience. During an extraordinary nocturnal performance on the jousting pool of Givors, Delphine Gatinois isolated the elements and the gestures with phosphorescent paint and made it possible to recreate, collectively, what is called "a beautiful pass".
Acknowledgments: The Lifeguards Club of Givors, the Mariners Museum of Serrières, Stéphane Buffa and the Municipal Archives of Givors.
© Delphine Gatineau
© Delphine Gatineau
MID-TERM FEEDBACK
At the beginning of March, around an aperitif, Delphine Gatinois shared her work in progress with the rescuers-jousters of Givors and the inhabitants, curious to discover her research and first productions.
Born in 1985, Delphine Gatineau lives and works between Champagne and West Africa. She leads several creative residencies in Mexico. This mobility between various places is the basis of its creation. With the social dimension of her research, she combines a transversal photographic approach: she choreographs images and creates photographic sculptures. She won the Mécènes du Sud prize in 2018 and the same year the Prix de la Nuit de l'Instant in Marseille.
