HUGUIER PHOTO PROJECT
Around
Françoise Huguier
photo project around the exhibition "Au doigt et à l'oeil!" on Françoise Huguier in Romainville - From February 9 to March 31, 2024
Françoise Huguier, an internationally-renowned photographer from Romainville and a keen traveller, never stops exploring and discovering people and their lifestyles. To extend these encounters, she photographs the Other in their familiar surroundings. In these travel diaries, portraits are combined with landscapes and still lifes. Sometimes the portraits form a series in their own right.
One of the aims of the project was to enable the children to take a fresh look at their environment, their neighbourhood, through a visit to the ‘Au doigt et à l'œil’ exhibition at Place de la Laïcité in Romainville and artistic experimentation around three themes, one for each neighbourhood: architecture, the body and movement, and the portrait, which enables them to pay particular attention to others.
To bring the project to a close, a convivial event was organised with all three neighbourhoods to present the photographic exhibition organised by the city of Romainville on the work of the artist Françoise Huguier, in the presence of the artist herself.
Find out more about the artist Françoise Huguier here.
visual arts course
histoires de voir, histoires de faire
A three-part educational and creative journey to the heart of the visual arts.
1. An educational introduction
An introduction to art history based on a theme or movement, learning how to look at, describe and analyse a work of art.
2. A practical art workshop
To experiment with different artistic techniques while learning about the creative process with an artist.
3. A cultural outing
Discover a museum, gallery, art centre or foundation on a guided tour linked to the first two sessions.
afterschool
workshops within the framework of the educational project
of the territory of the city of Romainville
Until June 2021, as part of its Projet Éducatif de Territoire (Local Educational Project), the City of Romainville, through the NAPs, mobilised more than 200 contributors each week to offer free, high-quality extracurricular activities to all schoolchildren in the municipality. In line with the objectives set out in the Projet Éducatif de Territoire (local education plan), the aim of our activities in the elementary NAPs was to offer children free cultural activities, artistic practice and image education, at the heart of the cultural and citizenship pathway for pupils from CP to CM2. Groups were formed by class level for the whole school year. The themes and practices covered changed after each school holiday period.
monthly workshops
one workshop per month carried out within
the association for members
Because images are omnipresent in our daily lives, it's important to take the time to look at them with curiosity and care, to understand them and appreciate their uses. Learning to look at, describe and analyse a work of art, then experimenting with different techniques through artistic practice, while learning about the creative process: these workshops are a time for meeting, exchanging and sharing, where children are given the opportunity to have their say. They are also an opportunity to offer them tools to help awaken and train their visual and creative skills, fostering links between knowledge and sensitivity.
micro-conferences
Supervised by professionals in the field of cultural mediation and guide-lecturers, the aim of the micro-conferences is to facilitate the discovery and knowledge of the history of art and contemporary creation for audiences who are not familiar with it.
Presented in the form of video projections, the sessions last between 20 and 40 minutes.
Each micro-conference is based on a cross-disciplinary theme, combining art and other disciplines.
Aimed at schools, social centres and old people's homes, they help to awaken and train participants' eyes.
the 4 seasons
The ‘Art in 4 Seasons’ project was based around a series of workshops combining art history and artistic practices. The aim of the cycle was to maintain residents' access to culture through artistic practice, using art as a means of preventing loss of autonomy.
The 2-hour workshops, led each time by 2 speakers (an art historian and a visual artist), were divided into two parts: a short lecture in images dedicated to the discovery of a colour approached through the history of art, followed by an artistic practice workshop linked to the colour approached.
Much more than the final result, the practical workshop was intended to be a privileged opportunity to experiment with the creative process and the pleasure it can generate.
micro-conferences on art history and artistic practice workshops around
color intended for seniors
c'est mon patrimoine
The ‘C'est mon Patrimoine’ (It's my Heritage) project is based on the discovery of the Pavillon, both in its heritage dimension and in its contemporary vocation as a cultural, philosophical, civic, associative and festive place in Romainville. The aim is to enable several groups of Romainville children aged between 6 and 12 to discover and take ownership of the site, by taking part in a programme of visits (to the Pavilion itself, but also to other heritage sites linked to the 1937 Universal Exhibition), meetings and practical art workshops with the artists in residence at the Pavilion.
