Photographs taken by students
Artistic intention thought and led by Émilie Saccoccio, photographer
Creation time conducted on 50 hours spread over two weeks in March and June 2018.
with: Charlotte Jargot, Agnès Piret, Bérangère Oziol, Sylvia Saubin and Lucile Richer, teachers and Jean-Paul Patichoud, director.
À Auguste de Renoir school, Tignieu-Jameyzieu (38).
Restitution the 19 June 2018.
Artistic intervention carried by Stimultania Pôle de photographie and DSDEN Isère.
Support by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the framework of artistic and cultural education projects and the Auguste Renoir school.
Émilie Saccoccio, photographer from Lyon, spent two weeks at the Auguste Renoir school in Tignieu-Jameyzieu, to work with five classes on the notions of ritual and gesture. What is a ritual? From when does a daily gesture take on this value? How to observe a gesture which is ritual for some but certainly does not mean anything for others (thus the rites which differ according to the cultures)? How to account for it by the image?
Each class took the time to face this vast field of reflection to make inventories and lists. And each class has adopted a direction: that which tells about the rituals of the school, of the class; who speaks of the passage; the great rituals and then the intimate, personal rituals. The groups worked on the gesture and then constructed the photograph by looking for the appropriate place to place it - a space that has nothing to do with the initial context.
They thus explored the narrative possibilities of the image, transcending for a time the limits of the known to settle in the imagination. The photographs now take over the walls of the school as well as a series of postcards given to each participating child.
"In this project, I wanted to question the reality of children, because I wanted to know it, avoiding any projection of adults. The question of ritual was a gateway to discovering what makes up their daily life, giving back a presence to trivialized gestures. I imagined a work process where the children would be as involved as me in the imagination and then the making of the photographs.
These images work today as invitations, suggestions, relying on the shift. Looking at them a posteriori I understood to what extent in this invitation to create for children, I wanted to make them strong, powerful, masters of their actions, at the center of these images. I would like us to access continuous beauty in the harmless gesture. It was by moving it to another context, by giving it a choreographic scope that it seemed to me that it became possible.
These children are like dancers, performers, emissaries from a world of childhood. In these images we find the solemn and mysterious dimension of the ritual, the survival of what has meaning but not necessarily a goal."
Emilie Saccoccio
Production: 1680 110 x 150 mm postcards on satin paper, divided into 5 series of 7 to 8 visuals, distributed to the students / 40 prints 300 x 400 mm laminated, 5 prints 700 x 900 mm on blue spine installed within the Auguste Renoir school from June 19, 2017.
Emilie Saccoccio : born in 1989, she lives in Lyon. After a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, specializing in photography and video at St-Étienne in 2010, Émilie Saccoccio continued her artistic course at the École Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine - Graphic Design, Image and Narration, from which she graduated in 2012 and then at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin, DNSEP Art objet in 2015. In 2012, it obtained the Rotary prize, 1st photography prize from the Lorraine and Meurthe et Moselle art schools; in 2013 the Vortex prize as part of the Rencontres des Ecoles d'Art du Grand-Est. She exhibits in Nancy, Dijon, Mulhouse, Strasbourg and Mexico where she carries out two of her projects (Reyes et Fog). She uses photography and video in an artistic approach that questions common representations (family ties, the relationship with death, language, work) to find accommodation in the interstices of interpretation, a sensitive, vibrant interpretation, dreamlike.
