EDITION
Publication date: January 2021
Book in consultation at Stimultania Strasbourg and Givors, at Diaphane Pôle photographique
Photographs and texts produced by Abdelkrim Rasoul, Georges Kimbembe, Kassem Al Abasi, Tassadit Ferhi (in Givors) and Alicia Nelson, Amandine Martine, Cassandra Viar, Élodie Vangeersdaele, Ilona Vandenheede, Léa Crette, Misbah Zegaoui, Navid Ahmadi (in Clermont-de-l'Oise) with Benoît Luisière and Patrice Juiff.
Support: Ministry of Culture within the framework ofBetween images, national program of workshops for transmission and photographic practice developed by the Diagonal Network. Intervention included in the program Make faces supported by Stimultania in the city of Givors in 2020, supported by DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region.
In 2020, Stimultania and Diaphane are joining forces to bring together an intervention by artists with audiences. Benoît Luisière, photographer, and Patrice Juiff, writer, have thus worked with two groups of volunteers, on the two territories by revolving around several themes: how the language, the word, comes to be lodged in the heart of the city then of the 'picture. How to talk to each other, understand each other (or not). Listening, eye and hand. Create a common vocabulary. Look for signs, invent symbols. First in Givors, in June 2020, then in Clermont-de-l'Oise, in September 2020, they built an abundant, absurd, poetic material gathered in this magnificent box with an academic allure (but appearances, no 'is this not…).
