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With the employees of Interm’aide Emploi, the children from the Le Pré vert leisure center and the inhabitants of Grand’Mare.
In la Ferme de l’Aubette, the restaurant Léo à table and the shared garden of Grand’Mare.
Following the Le Rucher project, which emerged from the Entre les images programme, and a group exhibition held on our premises on the theme of the garden as a symbol of resistance, we identified a new area for experimentation in collaboration with the Interm’aide Emploi association and its social integration restaurant, LéO à Table. In this area, in concentric circles radiating out from the Grand’Mare square, there is an herb garden planted by the social integration restaurant.
Circuit court is a photography workshop (and, ultimately, a bit of a cooking workshop too) which, in the summer of 2022, sought to use images to connect these green spaces, their users, their residents and their imaginations. Guided by Nîmes-based artist Anaïs Boileau, everyone observed, wandered, gathered, composed and tasted. The creative workshops have successively involved employees on work-integration schemes at the Aubette farm, children from the Le Pré Vert leisure centre, local residents, grandparents, parents and grandchildren, led by the BVGM association. The employees worked like photojournalists in their workplace, taking portraits and landscape shots, before trying their hand at still life, after which they were joined by the children from the leisure centre. The raw, home-grown produce subsequently found its way into LéO’s kitchens, where a group of residents set about creating further still lifes, in which kitchen utensils were happily incorporated. Following the workshop, a meal – let’s call it our ‘vegetable garden banquet’ – brought together the participants, the artist, the partners and plenty of courgettes and beetroot (also locally sourced) in the community garden run by the Bien vivre et vieillir association at La Grand’Mare. Just before the storm, a photographic walk took the participants to the recently replanted orchard, a vast, silent and little-known area at the foot of the concrete towers.
As part of the Entre les Images (Diagonal) programme.
With the support of Diagonal, the Ministry of Culture, and the Normandy Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs.
