Photographs, texts, collages and drawings made by: 12 men in detention (zzz, Drorcel, Fehri A., Mohamed G., Mike, Sam Sam, Zako, Sam, RM, Mickaël R., YC, Hrd), 7 relatives of detainees (Isa, Riad, Mickael, Suzy, Chantal, Mireille, Léa).
Artistic intention thought and carried out by: Marine Lanier, photographer and the collective La Bonne Adresse (Alex Viougeas, Marlène Scharr), graphic designers.
Text "Not all have made the same trips" écrit par : Marine Lanier
Video and editing made by: Alex Viougeas.
Graphics of the book produced by: Marlene Scharr.
Creation time led over 100 hours per artist, i.e. two weeks in July 2018, one week in November 2018, one week in February 2019
Restitution May 15 and 16, 2019.
Au Saint-Quentin-Fallavier prison center, July 2018 - May 2019.
with: Camille Nivol, director, Célia Gil and Marilou Decrand, civic services at the cultural center of the Penitentiary Service for Integration and Probation of the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier Prison Center; the volunteers of the Totem association and the Sodexo mediators in charge of welcoming families.
Intervention carried by Stimultania and the SPIP of the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier penitentiary center
Support by the DRAC and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the SPIP of the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier penitentiary center within the framework of the Culture / Justice program; the Fondation de France as part of the Weaving Initiative call for projects
Continuing its work in prisons, Stimultania is setting up in 2018 an intervention with an unprecedented configuration: the invited artists will create a collective work with men in detention but also with relatives of detainees. An openness to those who are affected by the situation and who are never heard or very little. The project is ambitious, it is being built from July 2018 until spring 2019.
The intervention took place at the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier penitentiary center with men incarcerated in remand centers and detention centers. Marine Lanier, photographer, and La Bonne Adresse (Alex Viougeas and Marlène Scharr) graphic designers, worked together on a multidisciplinary proposal, around the notions of clan, new land, language and code. A proposal that has been enriched and evolved with the contribution of the participants.
"The project, articulated around the themes of the clan and the savage, questions our fundamental need to belong. This primitive instinct which, since the dawn of time, has motivated human beings to focus on what they have in common, the aspirations they share in order to create a bond and build a “family” that goes beyond the literal meaning of term. We therefore invited the participants to imagine what our clan could be and to design its characteristics in a fun way.”Alex Viougeas, Marine Lanier
The first phase began in July 2018, two weeks with twelve men in detention. They made totem masks, found postures, invented new writing. The material produced was the subject of a first edition, a poster, given to participants in October.
This object also made it possible to introduce the project within the reception building for families upstream and downstream of the visiting rooms before moving on to the creation work, in November 2018. For four days, the artists occupied the room with reception, installing a decor made of natural elements, wood, luxuriant vegetation, to invite volunteers to create images of a new land, that of the clan formed with the detained men.
The last phase of implementation took place in February 2019, again in detention with the men who participated in the first intervention in July. In line with what has been done in the family reception building, the aim was to make the imagined territory visible to the imaginary clan. By borrowing naturalistic and anthropological codes and resources, the group creates “graphic tables” created using collages, drawings, fragments, samples and traces. A material resulting from iconographic research carried out upstream by the artists. Everyone gave free rein to their imagination and creativity. This time for discussion also made it possible to sensitize the participants on the issues and the coherence of the project as a whole in order to define together the forms that the various reports of the project will take.
Two restitution periods came to end this long-term project, in May 2019: a first in detention to give the participants the work produced, then at the Georges Sand space in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier for a presentation of the book with projection. video and debates, in the presence of the artists and some of the men who participated.
"We trace the deserts, the long walks in the sand, the stifling heat, the endless fever that you take with you, the yellow storms that inhabit the body. Outside, the sun burns our eyelids, our eyelashes, our pupils. We dream of walking in the heart of a forest - to feel the moss under our feet - the rain coming down on our clothes. Other inhabitants entered the enclosure. Our clan does not have a leader. We are in turn. On our shoulders, animal skins, animal masks, owl eyes."
Marine Lanier, extract from the text Tous n'ont pas fait les mêmes voyages, text written over the course of the project, based on testimonies and confidences received during the times shared within the detention center.
Productions: 15 posters 31 × 42 cm recto-verso, 50 copies. distributed to participants and partners; the book All have not made the same trips, 63 pages, 23 × 28,6 cm, 200 copies, printed in April 2019 by the printing office of Deux-Ponts. Graphics La Bonne Adresse.
Marine Lanier : Born in 1981, lives and works between Crest and Lyon. Graduated from the National School of Photography in Arles in 2007. She developed her approach in numerous residences and exhibited in particular at the Mulhouse Photography Biennale, at the Croisements Festival, at the Chengdu Blueroof Art Museum (China), at Samsøn Gallery (Boston), at Théophile Paper's (Brussels), during La Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon in the framework of Résonance, at Atelier De visu, Galerie Mad, Galerie La Traverse, Frac PACA ( Marseille), during the Itineraries of traveling photographers festival (Bordeaux), at the CAC Château des Adhémar in Montélimar, at the Michelle Chomette gallery, at the Jeune Création festival at the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery (Paris) at the Artothèque in Grenoble, during the festival PhotoIreland (Dublin), at the Borough Road Gallery (London).
Alex Viougeas and Marlène Scharr, The good adress : After the Beaux-Arts in Valence, Marlène Scharr entered the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, where she graduated in 2005. Since then, she has worked as a freelance mainly in the field of culture. She also develops visual identities, editorial projects and events communication projects. After obtaining the DNAT Graphic Design at the Regional School of Fine Arts in Valence, Alex Viougeas developed his know-how in the field of publishing, first in the press, then at Éditions Pyramyd. In 2005, he diversified his production by joining Maquetteetmiseenpage, a multidisciplinary graphic studio. Then, for seven years, he joined the Gallimard Jeunesse publishing house for which he developed and produced numerous books and collections intended for young readers. In early 2015, he left Gallimard Jeunesse to found - La Bonne Adresse - with Marlène Scharr.
