Photographs, videos, collages made by Élena, Erva-Nur, Fabien, Geoffroy, Kylian, Louisa, Nadjett and Sany.
Cycle of artistic workshops designed and led by Stimultania.
Intervention conducted over 40 hours from May to December 2021.
With Isabelle Bernaudeau, specialized professor.
At theLa Croisée Medico-Educational Institute, Grand-Croix (42).
Exhibition from 07 December 2021 to 27 January 2022 at IME La Croisée.
Support by the DRAC and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the AG2R LA MONDIALE mutual fund in the context of AGIRC-ARRCO funding, the IME La Croisée.
In 2021, Stimultania is carrying out its “Elbow grease” cycle at the IME La Croisée, in Grand-Croix (42). The set of workshops (image analysis, digital shooting, film photography, stopmotion, staging, collage, etc.) tackles the theme of work with hindsight, humor and poetry.
Based on a game with words, outfits, bodies, spaces and accessories, the cycle leads each young person to experiment with photographic techniques but also to work together, to overcome certain fears, certain limits, to develop patience, imagination, perseverance, confidence.
The eight new collaborators were extremely involved, participating both in the shooting, in the pose in front of the camera, in the exchange of ideas. Part of the creation was carried out within the IME itself, investing the various training workshops (green spaces, kitchens, multipurpose room, outdoors); the other took place over two days at the Saint-Étienne Mine Museum, the young bodies taking place in these spaces with emblematic photogenic and memory.
The experience was strong for everyone, all the more so in this period of health crisis whose presence will have sprinkled the entire production, involving new approaches, discreet but striking: appearance of masks in the aesthetics of the image , feeling of forbidden when the distance between two bodies is reduced, or when the mask falls, organizational constraints that require rethinking the unfolding etc.
It was in December 2021 that the project saw its final touch with an exhibition within the IME, in a dedicated room, the one that had been used in part for the workshops. The place is vast and its small industrial side fits perfectly with the aesthetics of the images and modules. These latter, designed and manufactured in 2020 by Jean-Michel Touzin, installer, are thus integrated into a new space, for a new scenography. A day and a half of assembly and then here is the time of the reception. IME staff, other students and families discover the scope of the work, guided by the authors. And if the new sanitary instructions will have got the better of the planned pot, a key element of a proper opening, the feeling of having arrived at the end of the experience will have been there, carried away by the presence and the gaze of the others.
