Photographs taken by Mathieu Farcy as part of his creative residency in Givors in 2023.
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.
In 2023, Stimultania invited the photographer artist Mathieu Farcy for his creative residency 5 stars in Givors. During his regular stays, taking the time to meet, the time to bond, Mathieu Farcy worked with around ten residents. They created collective works together, photographs that tell the story of what provides refuge for them. After the publication of an edition in December 2023, the “love and rage” series will be exhibited in spring 2024 at the Maison du Fleuve Rhône as well as in the windows of Stimultania in Givors.
Matthew Farcy, born in 1985, lives in Marvejols. Photographer after having been a specialized educator, Mathieu Farcy places the question of “social disqualification” at the center of his work. His interest in speech and the place of others in society has continued to permeate his photographic practice. His various works are part of a reflection around what he calls “horizontal documentaries”, in which he involves the participants and considers them as just as responsible for creation as he is. Circulation(s) festival of young European photography 2019After having approached it through two projects: a report with workers undergoing reintegration from the Le Relais factory, in the Somme and a video documentary on Goodyear workers in Amiens, he is carrying out a long-term project around the link between the face and identity. First the series “Chers à canons”, on the disfigured faces of survivors of the First World War, then a collaboration with patients affected by facial cancer, undergoing reconstruction (physical and mental).