Floor layers

Floor layers

Floor layers

Our floor layers work with differents materials: carpet, linoleum, PVC, rubber floor, floating floor, that come in differents formats: rolls, strips, tiles, and walls. 

 

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Our floor layers work with differents materials: carpet, linoleum, PVC, rubber floor, floating floor, that come in differents formats: rolls, strips, tiles, and walls. 

A definition, a move, a tool, an impression, building and public works students in apprentice training centers  were asked to leave aside rationality and formatting, to which they usually have to comply to. Here the creative and artistic space allows them to think about the senses, the moves, the impressions of the moment.

Putting words on an image that is not just descriptive, can be interesting and goes along with the process. It brings the corpus, that is to say the authors, the institution and you, visitors, to a discovery by analogy. 

A MOVE

AN ACTION 

A PICTURE

Exhibition in Pontacq – Workshop “Out of Time”

Exhibition in Pontacq – Workshop “Out of Time”

“Out of Time”

Workshop and exhibition at the Saint-Frai retirement house in Pontacq

During the vernissage, in the corridors of Pontacq retirement house ©Ph. Glorieux/À Propos

Medicine and social security enabled to elongate/prolongate the human lifespan to the point where/ when societies are looking for solutions so that old people live a pleasant end of life.   

Nowadays, all seniors don’t have the luck to have a family to look after them, especially when they suffer from cognitive disorders, or serious disabilities (Alzeimer). They need an extra care, so they are sent to retirement homes (EPHAD). The end of life questions us about how to accompany elderly persons and what are their place in modern/ our societies. 

 © Ph. Glorieux/À Propos

Philippe Glorieux, an author-photographer from the collective A propos, redefines the art of portrait, and breaks with the illusions of resemblance, following Paul Klee saying/statement « art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible ». Especially here, where the visible is disturbing to see. 

For the photographer the priority is the way and not the end, so he put in place creative projects in order to bring happiness to the elderly or simply to spark their interest in living, to make them feel alive again. Seniors are mirrors to our own finitude. 

Visiting: During the portrait sessions, the photographer made the EHPAD residents pose while the pictures were being projected on a big screen. He chose the motion-blur effect to show them in their social space, while still making them stand out from the blurry background. Their relatives, the staff, the co-residents, anybody in the background, thanks to a slow motion effect appear to be « ghosts ». They are surrounded by people but yet they feel more and more alone. 

The portrait session was on a volunteer basis. In order to catch the attention of the residents, the photographer put a great importance to explaining his approach, the art of portrait, the timelessness of a picture , as well as its patrimonial value. 

Role-play: The photographer used Pause Photo Prose play-cards, to recreate famous paintings but with photography. With its 32 cards, this game helped stimulate curiosity, emulation, attention and collective thinking. This game requires several qualities: quick observation, complicity, logic, knowledges, imagination, listening, and teamwork.

Create: the portraits are made with a remote control, the models can see the picture on a big screen. In the framework of the « Scène en tableaux » / picture a scene/ On stage/ workshop, the residents had to organise the setting and look for costumes and accessories in order to create a great role-play portrait. 

After a cultural mediation workshop about six paintings, the residents chose a couple of paintings to recreate. Here, it is Francois Boucher, 1739, Family Taking Breakfast.

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© Ph. Glorieux/À Propos

Concrete Waves

Concrete Waves

Concrete waves

Pierre-Antoine Lalaude, photographer and founding member of the association À Propos exhibited his photography serie “Concrete waves” on the Prefecture grilles.

Noun also as Pal, Pierre-Antoine Lalaude, thanks to his favorite technique, the fill-in flash, invites us in the world of urban skateboarding. 

 

BULLSEYE

© PAL Photographie – http://palphoto.fr/

Exhibition “Indian Ashram” Fabienne Percheron

Exhibition “Indian Ashram” Fabienne Percheron

Indian Ashram

Photographer and member of À Propos, Fabienne Percheron’s work is exhibited at the gallery L’Angle until 28 July 2019.

In the footsteps of a community, the photographs combine a minimalist treatment, just as a watercolor or Japanese prints. These works testify to the resilient reappropriation of nature. The visitors will recognise the meaningful symbols, opening the doors to other worlds.

– Philippe Glorieux, coordinator of the association À Propos.

Nature as a symbol!

In 2015, Fabienne Percheron did a trip of several month in India. During this initiatory itinerary, she discovered a new country and met many people, she practiced meditation and yoga. Photography was a space of freedom and “ex-pression”. When she returns, she sets up exhibitions.

“Indian Ashram” marks the end of this work, and takes us in a place full of energy. Fabienne said, that the walls are still standing, sometimes the roofs in suspension are ready to give way. Perched on the heights of the Ganges, at the gates of the jungle, there is an abandoned ashram. A few round stone huts seem conducive to meditation, some buildings still standing once were accommodations for the faithful who came to seek inner peace. From this spiritual era still emanates a very special energy.

Exhibition TYRES – ARNAUD LAUSSEN

Exhibition TYRES – ARNAUD LAUSSEN

ART IN THE GARAGE

The associative garage, PNEUS, welcomed Arnaud Laussen, from À Propos, as its photographer in residence. He captured during a couple of days this world of mechanics, human and oil sludge. 

June 2019

 

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Although the cost of mechanical repairs are still high for most people and remain a necessity as cars are daily means of commute, Arnaud Laussen let himself driven by this associative garage, where human-relations are at the heart of the service. 

From the personnel of the garage; mechanics, administration, members, volunteers; to the meaningful symbols of reparation that are tools, everything got through the lens of Arnaud Laussen, with a naturel aestheticism.

HUMANS, THE HEARTS OF ENGINES!

Workshop/Exhibition ADRIEN BASSE-CATHALINAT – Paul Rey High School

Workshop/Exhibition ADRIEN BASSE-CATHALINAT – Paul Rey High School

BEYOND GENDER

Deconstruct stereotypes and accept differences 

BEYOND GENDER

After showing the work of non-binary artists about the representation of genres, the photographer and member of À propos, Adrien Basse-Cathalinat conducted a workshop on this matter with Paul Rey high school students in Nay. The work of the artist SMITH was a reference for the students in order to create stereotype-free piece of arts.  

© Adrien Basse-Cathalinat

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