EDITION
Closed format: 23x33 cm
166 pages
Inside pages on 130 g matt coated paper
Cover on 300 g modern semi-matt coated paper with soft touch lamination
50 products
Graphics: Stimultania
Printing: Printot & Ixo, Wasselonne
Publication date: September 2019
Book in consultation at Stimultania Strasbourg and Givors
photographs: Joseph Gallix, photographer and Samira Annag, Feriguez Assad, Margot Ferri, Almatar Kanté, Ridha Guefassa, Lahouaria Mouhnari, Yvette Posset, Pawel Sokolowski.
June 2019.
Support: intervention implemented thanks to the Between images carried by the Diagonal network with the support of the Ministry of Culture. Intervention part of the cycle Make Faces carried by Stimultania in the city of Givors, supported by the DRAC, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region within the framework of the FIACRE, the CGET within the framework of adult-relay actions.
Joseph Gallix spent a week working alongside a group of adults learning French and finding work, who were involved in this experience on a voluntary basis. They did not know each other and took up a challenge: to create a common work, mainly photographic, over a given time, in a defined context - Givors.
The book project was built over the week and thanks to the investment of several hands and eyes. Daily, Joseph Gallix and the participants made a selection of the images they wanted to keep. From this sorting, the artist refined the selection and imagined a first railroad that he submitted to Juliette Ganteille, in charge of graphic and educational tools at Stimultania.
Gradually the desire appeared to give the work an air of a classical play. The graphic principle of the edition was organized: literary layout, pagination in full, ornaments (couillards and cul-de-lamp). For her part, Matilde Brugni, notebook and voice recorder in hand, has carefully recorded, over the days, the traces of the reactions, exchanges and sensitivity of each. This material gave rise to the writing of a detailed logbook retracing the urban adventures of the participants.
Photographs taken by Benoît de Carpentier.