TRAMES

Session after session, 180 people from all walks of life came together between October ’23 and June ’24 to weave together – knot after knot – a monumental work imagined by choreographer Jordi Galí, from the Lyon-based company Arrangement Provisoire.

François Payrastre (musician and sound designer) and Julien Penichost (photographer and videographer) were privileged witnesses and keen observers of this traveling adventure. In this exhibition, the two partners share the life stories – sometimes extraordinary, sometimes familiar – of these committed weavers, through a double portrait: the views of their hands and the fragments of stories they carry.

In Feyzin, St-Fons, Vénissieux and Corbas, this collective, nomadic creation gradually took shape, and with it sprang unexpected encounters and unusual experiences. Surveying a new or rediscovered territory, an ephemeral community has come together, bringing together long-standing residents and newcomers, teenagers and senior citizens, students and amateurs, users of cultural spaces and passers-by in a single creative venture.

This project has 2 main partners, metropolitan structures working to promote the social autonomy of individuals: France Horizon and ANEPA Tremplin. With them, Arrangement Provisoire shares the conviction that artistic creation and practice are true levers of emancipation.

8 partner venues hosted the 17 sessions: EHPAD La Maison Fleurie in Feyzin, L’Épicerie Moderne, le Corner, la Médiathèque et le Fort, le CAP in St-Fons, Le Polaris in Corbas and L’Espace Pandora in Vénissieux.

In addition, 16 artists, companions and accomplices contributed their own practices to the project. Each session was therefore an opportunity to experience an artistic practice with the participants: singing, listening to music, dance, ceramics, poetry, writing, object theater… Moments of sensitive discovery and personal expression, renewed at each session.

TRAMES is the meeting of people and places around a common, unifying goal, it’s a collective gesture, made up of individual and singular contributions, that seeks to restore confidence in oneself and in others, an experience to nourish sensibilities, a lever for emancipation, an impetus

The installation and exhibition will run from 4 July to 31 December 2024. The Fort will be closed from 4 to 23 August 2024. Access to the work at all times during the Fort's opening hours: Monday to Saturday from 8am to 8pm and Sunday from 8am to 6pm. Exhibition open during visiting hours: Wednesdays and Saturdays from 2pm to 5pm

Artistic Director Jordi Galí

Exhibition designed by Julien Penichost & François Payrastre, created with Konrad Kaniuk

Work created with 180 volunteers, met during 17 sessions from October 2023 to June 2024

Project carried out in collaboration and complicity with France Horizon, ANEPA Tremplin and the Pôles Culture and Solidarity and Citizenship Departments of the City of Feyzin

Coordination of Partnerships and Financial Management Anne Lise Chrétien

France Horizon Coordinator Karla Valentin, Integration Advisor

ANEPA Tremplin Coordinator Marie-Ève Péguy, Director

Artistic collaborators and contributors Vania Vaneau (choreographer), Jeanne Vallauri (dancer), Konrad Kaniuk (set designer), Silvère Simon (dancer), Melina Faka (set designer), Barkanan – Ianis and Léo Farcy (musicians), Renaud Golo (musician), Claire Truche (director), Dimitri Porcu (poetry mediator), Christophe La Posta (poetry mediator), Elodie Elsenberger (designer and visual artist), Célia Gondol (dancer and visual artist)

Partners and venues Le Fort de Feyzin, EHPAD La Maison Fleurie, L’Epicerie Moderne, Médiathèque, le Corner, et Centre Social Mosaïque in Feyzin ; Le CAP – Centre d’Art in St-Fons-; le Polaris in Corbas ; l’Espace Pandora et Elantiel in Vénissieux

Financial support and patrons Le Grand Lyon as part of the Culture(s) & Solidarité(s) 2023/2024 call for projects; AG2R La Mondiale-; Continuum & Zig-Zag; Ville de Feyzin; Préfète de la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes; Fondation JM Bruneau et la Fédération des Acteurs de la Solidarité; France Horizon; L’Epicerie Moderne; Ets. J. Corne & Cie; ANEPA Tremplin

Special thanks to Claire Leroy, KompleX KapharnaüM

In résonnance with the 17th Lyon Biennale – Contemporary Art