From MAY 17 TO SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
VERNISSAGE
FRIDAY MAY 17 18PM
PUBLIC MEETING
SATURDAY MAY 18 16PM
FREE ENTRY
FROM WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY
14 p.m. - 18:30 p.m.
These photographs were produced as part of the major national commission “Radioscopy of France: views on a country going through the health crisis” financed by the Ministry of Culture and managed by the BnF.
Stimultania presents “Under the sunlights”, an exhibition around carefreeness, conviviality and popular festivals: six artists winners of the Grande Commande Photojournalisme, Théo Combes, Julie Glassberg, Cha Gonzalez, Laurent Moynat, Théophile Trossat and Mathias Zwick .
Sit down and have something. You and I are survivors. Frida is not dead I tell you. I'm going to tell you about the foam in the streets of Béziers and the pure pastis poured down your throats. Fireworks, when you're right below and the speakers are blasting good old music Barilla with first, second violins and horns in B flat. At the campsites, at least you don't have to worry, you can sing at the top of your lungs, no one will ever notice that it's out of tune. It was Loliii ! Come Dance !
Stimultania presents six winning artists of the Great Photojournalism Order.
Six artists who speak neither of purchasing power, nor of the climate, risk zones, feminicides and peasants.
For once, the exhibition focuses on flexible neon lights, subwoofers and pickles. Stimultania takes you on a little tour of gathering places, rave parties, cellars set up for friends, Monster Truck races. If you're interested, let's go together, get dressed up, have dinner, drive and forget about everything. We even forget that the seaside resorts already have their feet in the water.
Be ready, Vernon still has Alex's USB drive.
Celine Duval
A PORCELAIN SUMMER · THÉO COMBES
An emblematic town on the Mediterranean coast, Valras-Plage welcomes forty thousand tourists every summer. They are, for the most part, families, seduced by its old-fashioned charm and the ultra-competitive prices of its campsites. The days are spent at the beach. In the evening, the restaurant terraces are full, the queues lengthen in front of the ice cream parlors, the funfair is in full swing and the narrow shopping street is invaded by crowds. At the entrance to the city, the Monster Trucks kick up the dust while the foam invades the dance floor of the campsites. In this atmosphere of vacation and apparent indolence, the signs of imminence of danger are already there. The seaside resort faces drought, sweltering heatwaves, coastal erosion and rising sea levels. To deal with this, it restricted the use of water, built powerful dykes and raised the parapet of its promenade. In a troubling paradox, it has also embarked on the construction of a huge real estate complex. In the first line…
STAYIN' ALIVE · JULIE GLASSBERG
At a time when life expectancy is increasing, old age is seen as a burden to which an empathetic attitude is required, especially as seniors have been in the spotlight during the Covid pandemic. “Taking tea dances and other balls as a starting point, I wanted to meet these seniors for whom life has not stopped after retirement age. There are those who dance, those who still work, those who play sports, those who fall in love... The desire is there! But society's paternalistic outlook tends to limit opportunities. So certainly, the envelope changes and transforms, but its beauty is a question of perception, and if the inner fire always burns, there is no question of stopping. »
ABANDONMENT · CHA GONZALES
Abandon is a series which has its roots in 2010, in a work on young people and their relationship to partying, produced in Beirut in a context of traumatic memory of the war. Long-term reflection on the paradoxical relationship between the desire for ecstasy and self-destructive practices. Through the holidays, Cha Gonzalez explores our inner wars, our need to escape reality, to live strong experiences, to find warmth to fill a feeling of dissatisfaction, sexual frustration, loneliness. Sometimes also to find a community, a belonging, a family, something that transcends our existences lacking meaning.
DINING ROOM – STILL LIFE OF FAMILY MEAL · LAURENT MOYNAT
“How to put an end to the hunger of difficult months? » headlined Juliette Delage, Kim Hullot-Guiot and Pauline Moullot in the newspaper Libération on February 25, 2022. We then read the difficulty of eating correctly both in terms of quality and quantity. An article which reveals that in the fall of 2021, 30% of French people are experiencing financial difficulties in eating healthily. Feed yourself, that is. But how ? By portraying tables before they are cleared, Laurent Moynat powerfully illustrates the societal and socio-economic issues.
THE REFUGE · THÉOPHILE TROSSAT
After the isolation due to the health crisis, deprived of bars and restaurants, socializing circles were recreated, in small committees. In Vendée, for centuries, homes have had a place dedicated to this socialization: “the cellar”. Inherited from the time when, in this region, many households had their plot of vines, the cellar has remained a special part of the house even though the vines have mostly disappeared. After falling into disuse, these intimate refuges for male socialization were taken over by young Vendéens.
LÉON, MÉGANE & ZOÉ: THE FRENCH AND THEIR CARS · MATHIAS ZWICK
Rearview mirror decorated with trinkets or objects of belief, 100% leather or imitation tiger steering wheel in a cabin smelling of factory plastic or cold cigarettes. This second home on four wheels is omnipresent in our daily lives. 80% of French households have one and, yet, it has never been so questioned in speeches. Still essential but threatened, the car remains at the heart of the organization of our modern societies. The automobile tells the story of our times wonderfully: to photograph it is to photograph society as a whole.
Born in Montpellier in 1993, Theo Combes, graduated from the École supérieure des professions artistics in Montpellier and the ETPA photography school in Toulouse, works for the press and develops personal projects around the Mediterranean basin. In 2019, he received the Laurent Troude scholarship for his subject Noire Méditerranée around immigration. This series was presented at the Château d'eau in Toulouse in 2021. He also participated in the collective project “D'Oc” of the Cétavoir association which was the subject of a book published by Lamaindonne. Since the Great Photographic Commission, he has continued his work on the seaside resort of Valras-Plage.
Born in France in 1984. Lives in Paris. Graduated in graphic arts in 2008, Julie Glassberg went to study photojournalism and documentary photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. After seven years in this city, where she collaborated with The New York Times, she moved to Tokyo for a year. She is interested in the diversity of cultures, underground circles and the marginalized people of society. His work is published in the international press and has been awarded several times.
Born in 1985, Cha González is an editorial and documentary photographer/videographer based in Paris. After growing up in Beirut, Lebanon, she graduated from the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. His work focuses on youth, social unrest and domestic unrest. She has collaborated, among others, with Le Monde, the Wall Street Journal, Elle, Libération, Grazia and Causette.
Her main work, Abandon, was published in Fisheye Magazine, IZ and Meteore, she was also a finalist for the Virginia Prize for Women and was exhibited in 2019 at ICI Paris (Institut des Cultures d'Islam).
Born in 1970, Laurent Moynat became a photographer after graduating in 1992 from ETPA. When he began his career in 1993, he received two significant distinctions: the Major Ilford book and the Broncolor prize in Arles. Very quickly, he took on advertising orders and editorials for the press. Today, Laurent Moynat divides his life between Paris and Toulouse, where he created Studio Lucette in 2011 with a team of professional photographers. Since 1999, Laurent has been a BTS Photography teacher at the ETPA school in Toulouse.
Born in France in 1984. Lives in Nantes. After studying shipbuilding and experience in industry, Théophile Trossat trained in photojournalism in Paris. Since 2012, he has covered local news and the various issues affecting it. Zadist, minister, prostitute, student, with or without disability, writer, nun, prisoner, cook, sailor pose in front of his lens. He collaborates with the national and international press.
Born in 1990, Mathias Zwick is an independent photographer based in Strasbourg and member of Inland, an international cooperative of documentary photographers. He produces photojournalisms and documentary series in France and abroad. Influenced by a cinematic aesthetic imbued with poetry, even humor, he photographed skateboarders in Iran, rockers of Albanian and Serbian origin brought together by music in Kosovo and even the rating system for Chinese citizens. He publishes in the French and foreign press and media such as Libération, Le Monde and l'Obs call on him for commissioned work.
