Audience:
5 schools, 4th through 9th grade, Left Bank MJC, family

Location:
Pavillon du Jardin des Plantes (Rouen)

Time of intervention :
17h of photographic workshop + time of residence

Artist :
Hubert Crabières (Argenteuil)

Technique:
Cyanotype, textile

Device :
within the framework of Super Coin

Partners:
Normandy Region, Rouen Normandy Metropolis, City of Rouen via RRouen – Rouen Metropole Visual Arts Network

Process:
SUPERCOIN is a cultural program conceived by the Rouen metropole visual arts network and takes place over a month, in October 2021, at the Jardin des Plantes in Rouen. Each member invites an artist to think and lead artistic practice workshops for the young public.

The Centre photographique Rouen Normandie invites the photographer Hubert Crabières. In the context of the Jardin des Plantes, the artist uses the cyanotype technique to recall the herbariums of the time and calls upon the magician’s cape made by Méliès for one of his films. Thus, from plants gleaned in the garden, each group of children makes cyanotypes on squares of fabric, then assembled to obtain the cape of the costume, which is made by the older children. Playing with patchworks of printed flower images and various fabrics, the artist offers the children the opportunity to invent a costume and its cape that are thought of as much as visual explorations of photography as exhibition spaces to be worn.

Restitution :
The workshops lead to the collective realization of a large costume printed with photographic herbariums with the cyanotype technique, on small pieces of fabric and whole garment. The ensemble is then brandished by the children during the parade that closes SUPERCOIN.