Audience :
Students in first through fifth grade.

Location :
Pépinières St-Julien School (Rouen), Escola Básica da Glória (Aveiro – Portugal)

Time of intervention :
86h of artistic practice workshop + residence

Artist :
Damien Monteau (Bordeaux)

Techniques :
Photographic collage, drawing

Device :
Jumelages

Partners :
DRAC, Cities of Rouen and Aveiro, CreArt, Saison France-Portugal

Process :
Within the framework of this project, the artist and graphic designer Damien Monteau goes back and forth between a school in Rouen and a school in Aveiro. He offers several workshops on the principle of blind folding (cadavre-exquis): photographic collages (which will then constitute the edition), or a work of drawing with light tablets.

The photographs used during the workshops come from image banks previously constituted by Damien Monteau from the respective visual universes of the children from Rouen and Aveirenses. Unexpected formal and cultural encounters appear in the middle of the pencils, the collages and between the children. As the work progresses, the images are shared, exchanged, linked, confronted, cut out, sometimes demystified but above all commented on and re-appropriated.

Restitution :
A playful edition is created from the photographic collages. Each page of the book is divided in two, so that the top and bottom can be flipped through independently. In the manner of a cadavre-exquis, a multitude of combinations becomes possible, to give new and unexpected forms that cohabit with each other. The collages of the children of Rouen and Aveiro are each identified with a corresponding letter (R) and (A), discreetly placed in the compositions.