Photographs taken by Léonie Pondevie as part of her creation residency Givors is an island.
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 2020, Stimultania is launching a call for projects for an elegantly named creative residency 5 stars. Léonie Pondevie, artist photographer living in Lorient,
is the winner: she will be hosted for 8 weeks at Givors to develop a personal project.
In February 2021, whether wind, rain or snow, the photographer crisscrosses the city and follows its rivers: the Rhône river but also the two rivers that flow into it, the Gier and the Garon. She walks for long hours, photographing places, details, people; picking up on its way vestiges, pieces of glass and coal, traces of the industrial past of the city.
In April, Léonie Pondevie slowly finds her marks. The grass has grown in the places visited and the light is no longer the same but its production is refined and a very beautiful photographic set takes shape. She then imagines a route, a sort of treasure hunt that invites curious walkers to follow in her footsteps and discover, as they go, hidden fragments of the final edition of the project presented in the form of a set of postcards. .
FOR FURTHER
Leonie Pondevie is a photographer born in 1996 in Angers. A graduate of the European School of Art in Brittany, she is a member of the Collectif Nouveau Document. For her, landscapes are a reflection of our society, which leads her to question anthropization, that is to say the impact of Man on nature through the transformation of territories, whether this either through industrialization or urbanization. She uses many mediums and techniques such as video, installation, ceramics or drawing. The Google Earth software first allows him to carry out a photographic inventory. Secondly, she explores the territory and deepens her investigative work through photography, then writing, drawing and installation.
