= 4 exhibitions
= Based on the Collection des Multiples
= Lycée Simone-Signoret, Vaux-le-Penil / Lycée Professionnel Jean-Moulin, Vincennes / Lycée Sonia-Delaunay, Cesson / Lycée des métiers de l’horticulture et du paysage Jeanne-Baret, Montreuil
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The general principle is that of an art library.
Like a library that lends books, the cneai = lends works of art from the Collection des Multiples to participating classes. Like young collectors, students enjoy privileged access to the works. They are encouraged to observe, analyze, manipulate and question the works in order to choose and borrow them. Once this decisive first step has been completed, the selected works are returned to the school or establishment.
Accompanied by the cneai = team, a visiting artist and their teachers, the students experience all the stages, decisions and surprises that lead to the creation of an exhibition. The students take it in turns to be curators, stage managers, mediators and scenographers! It’s a collective effort that takes shape at the vernissage, at which all students from the school or establishment, families, friends, neighbors and partners are invited to discover the works on display.
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Julia Borderie & Éloïse Le Gallo’s proposal follows on from their short film Bleu Silico, about gene therapy research. As part of the Flying Exhibitions project, they invite us to create an immersive experience in which touch is a key element. This proposal aims to sensitize students to the aesthetic experience as a sensory experience, covering the various perceptions of reality. The activity also addressed the issue of accessibility to art for the visually impaired, thanks to the contribution of Kevin Girard, who provided feedback during the sessions.
Together with two classes of Première ASSP students from Lycée Simone Signoret, the artists worked on a selection of works from the Collection des Multiples, in order to explore works likely to evoke tactile sensations or engage the sense of touch and proprioception.
In partnership with the EPHAD Les Jardins d’Iroise in Dammarie-les-Lys, students had the opportunity to work with residents on the design of labels for selected works. This initiative fostered the creation of intergenerational links and enabled them to analyze the works in the collection from a new angle.
The students were then asked to design an exhibition using an experimental approach. The exhibition was accompanied by the installation of tactile signage. To achieve this, the artists and students used scratch and scotch tape, as well as various textures and embossing on paper. These carefully designed elements provide clear points of reference in the space, helping to orientate visitors and provide them with the information they need to understand the exhibition.
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Nour Awada, visual artist and founder of the Laboratoire des Arts de la Performance (LAP), worked at the Lycée Jean-Moulin in Vincennes. The artist devised a performance workshop with 26 students in Première accueil-relation clients et usagers, who were able to practice their writing and mediation skills.
Together, they questioned some of the works in the Multiples collection, chosen for the narrative dimension of their titles. Based on the idea of “wordplay”, “verbal jousting” and “absurd discourse”, the artist mischievously diverted the expectations of classic mediation, inviting the students to rewrite the history of the works and give them a whole new meaning. An exercise in questioning: where does one draw the line between the singular appropriation of a work and the construction of a falsified discourse? Students were invited to use their imagination, on the one hand, and to become aware of the need for critical thinking skills, on the other.
The workshop approach involved writing fictional stories of varying degrees of implausibility, to be presented orally during an exhibition visit. The oral presentation of the texts was worked on through games of scenic expression, experimentation with space and speech - clapping, voice warm-ups, performance of playlets.
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Curator and art critic Marie Canet and artist Hamid Shams worked with a Terminale générale art history option class and a Terminale professionnelle Métiers du commerce et de la vente class at the Lycée Sonia-Delaunay in Cesson.
The pairing of Marie Canet and Hamid Shams asked the students to produce an exhibition on intimacy, with the aim of examining how this notion, so important in adolescence, can be linked to social, identity, political and economic issues.
Starting from this premise, the students applied a methodology and style derived from advertising to the exercise of art criticism. For each work in the Collection des Multiples, they imagined and wrote a “storytelling”, which was then distilled, like an advertisement, into a striking slogan. The students were then divided into groups: one curatorial group created an olfactory setting for the works with Marie Canet, while another group created a lipstick mural on the Lycée’s windows using the slogans, which were also broadcast over the school’s loudspeakers. A demonstration of how seductive advertising can mobilize and even saturate space to the point of penetrating our intimacy.
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Chedly Atallah, artist, architect and scenographer, worked with the Aménagements Paysagers final year class at the Lycée des métiers de l’horticulture et du paysage Jeanne-Baret in Montreuil. Together, they worked on the staging of the Collection des Multiples.
The fifteen students involved in the project had the opportunity to discuss with Chedly Atallah the links between architecture and landscape, and the particularities of these disciplines. Using a cartography of the high school created on the ground with painter’s tape and tracing paper visuals, the students and the guest artist were able to grasp the space of the school, also the site of their exhibition.
Working together, the students then put the works into dialogue around the notions of architecture and the living, with the aim of producing texts and mental maps. This preparatory work enabled them to design the “Micro-Macro, l’architecture du vivant” exhibition. The students, who became curators, scenographers, stage managers and graphic designers, worked with Chedly Atallah to create an exhibition conceived as a cartography in which works from the Collection des Multiples are linked to each other by a narrative network.
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