Installations and photographs made by 93 students from four classes from CP to CM2.
Artistic intention thought and led by Lise Dua, photographer.
Creation time conducted over two weeks in December 2020.
With Laure Chapuis, Marie Dos Santos, Cécile Kaemmerlen, Delphine Gradeler, school teachers.
À the school of Sermérieu (38).
Intervention carried by Stimultania Pole of photography in partnership with the DSDEN of Isère.
Support by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and the Sermérieu school.
October 2019, Stimultania meets Lise Dua, a photographer with an intimate and sensitive gaze, and invites her to work with the students of the School of Colors in Sermerieu. His intervention is stalled, everything is ready. But events are rushing, everything is suspended. March 2020, containment, distance, mask. Decision is made to postpone work until the start of the school year
December 2020. Two confinements are behind. Barrier gestures become the usual wear and tear. Masks are almost like a second skin. We learn to read faces by ignoring a part. Or at least we try. However, the physical distances and the new props in force will not be an obstacle for the artist and for the children. And questioning the portrait and the face of the Other, at that moment, takes on quite another importance.
Behind the scenes © Stimultania, Lise Dua and the children
Faces images © Lise Dua and the children
Born in Chambery in 1989, Lise dua lives and works in Lyon. She graduated with a license in Plastic Arts in Saint-Étienne in 2010 and then from the National School of Photography in Arles in 2013. Her artistic practice is built around portraiture. She is particularly interested in faces, as a place of identity, family and individual, but also as a place of interaction with others. Nourished by drawing and cinema, Lise Dua also draws her inspiration from those close to her - like her younger sister Clara, whom she photographed for 10 years - and from family albums, preciously preserved. His research questions memory, looks, gestures, singularity and expressiveness, resemblances. An intimate and sensitive family story is then written between the ages, in black and white and in color.
