Audience:
Two 6th grade classes, Georges Braque high school (Rouen)
Employees of Interm’aide, a work integration program

Location:
La Grand Mare, Hauts-de-Rouen

Time of intervention :
25h of photographic workshop, 20h of ceramic workshop and 20h of writing workshop

Artists :
Aladin Borioli (Switzerland), Marion Dutoit (Le Havre) and Philippe Ripoll (Rouen)

Mediums:
Photography, ceramics and writing

Devices:
Entre les images – Réseau Diagonal

Partners :
LéO à table restaurant (Interm’aide integration project), Diagonal – DGCA, DRAC Normandie

Process:
Following several workshops designed specifically for the Grand Mare neighborhood in the Hauts-de-Rouen, the project Le Rucher wants to extend the work of raising awareness of photography and the arts started in this neighborhood. The bee and honey, common denominators to many cultures present in the district are approached as a vector of gathering around the apiary installed by the restaurant LéO à table and the honey house present in the school.

The project is divided into three workshops: photography / ceramics / writing. From archival images of various beehives, Aladin Borioli proposes to invent new ones through the practice of photographic collage and drawing. At the same time, Marion Dutoit, artist and landscape designer, creates with the students honey lollipops in the shape of pollen from the Grand’Mare, previously analyzed. These workshops are punctuated by the writing interventions of Philippe Ripoll who develops with them short fictional stories where the bee never stops evolving.

Restitution :
The restitution is planned in the form of a newspaper gathering views of the workshops and the students’ productions, then distributed to all the participants during a collective event outside, probably on the places where the week of artistic interventions took place.