Feb 19, 2012 | Laboratoire en
The village church in Péage de Roussillon overlooks the Rhone valley for centuries. A place with powerful memories, it is anchored in identities shared by everybody, whose symbolic function is however no longer questioned by the test of everyday life.
This church was stormed by Maryvonne Arnaud in 1987: standing on a high-lift truck parked a few meters away from the church frontage, she has for a few hours taken a comprehensive set of detailed shots. 110 images, approximately one metre square, taken from the front without vanishing lines, which recreated the whole façade.
But the rigour of this systematic shooting does not hide the weaknesses of the photographer, on the contrary it shows some loss of details, some spatial inconsistencies, and brings out the physical challenge of this long commitment.
These fragments are then reproduced full scale, then put together on a network of cables strung across the front of the building.
Far from recreating the original façade, the monumental work re-composes it in another spatial and temporal dimension: each puff of wind makes the 150 square meters of this façade of sensitive paper flutter in the wind and escape from gravity towards to live a new life with baroque hues!
Three years in a row, and in three different cities of the Rhône Valley, including Arles during the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Maryvonne Arnaud systematically shoots the façade of a particular building, before delivering it to the Mistral wind.
Feb 19, 2012 | Laboratoire en
World-workshop tries to initiate a process of inquiry interfacing with the public, as a loop that asks, as an incubation device intended to rebuild the life of the city. This back and forth between the concrete and daily experience of each one – located here, and experiences of a multitude of authors – scattered around the world, renew the public space by snatching it from the rigidities inherited from the usual to unfold other coherences.
The circle of writers associated from the beginning to the world-workshop: artists Maryvonne Arnaud and Philippe Mouillon, sociologists Yves Chalas et Henry Torgue, philosophers Daniel Bougnoux et Yves Citton, clearly stated this postulate inviting living authors in the Rhone-Alpes region such as Jean-Pierre Chambon, Olivier Frérot, Luc Gwiazdzinski, Bernard Fort, Xavier Garcia, and confronting them to others, scattered throughout the world, such Bruno Latour, Stefano Boeri, Janek Sowa, François Ascher, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Osamu Nishitani, Patrick Chamoiseau, Bernard Stiegler, Augustin Berque, Thanh Nghiem, Aude Merlin,…
World-Workshop sets the aesthetic representations at the heart of exchange. Each workshop is open and relies on images, movies, sound fragments, many clues of the world that stimulate and provoke thought, but that also and especially help to preserve an intellectual exchange accessible to ordinary citizens, who is more intuitive and open to the intimate experience.
This device attempts to make visible the unthought of the time, the fragilities of representations and dominant interpretations of a real that escapes and is never where one looks for, or as expected.
