In the continuation of her personal researches, the artist offers six sessions to the students, taking as a starting point the observation of the stones. Following the discovery of the mineralogical collection of the Musée des Mines - ParisTech, the students develop a multitude of plastic, theoretical and fantastic researches from the stones and rocks they glean daily. These individual explorations take part in the construction of stories and objects constituting the heart of a surprising collective work. The different stages of this progression are done and undone under the eye of Carine Klonowski’s camera.The writer, poet, critic and sociologist Roger Caillois explains that people have always been interested in stones - for technical, medicinal, aesthetic, symbolic or mystical reasons. For a long time, they have been used and sought after for these multiple uses, and are also synonymous with research.The writer, poet, critic and sociologist Roger Caillois explains that people have always been interested in stones - for technical, medicinal, aesthetic, symbolic or mystical reasons. They have long been used and sought after for these multiple uses, and are also synonymous with research. Whether it is to find them, to extract them, to open them, but also to study them, to make them speak, to find meaning and images in them… This way of thinking is not foreign to the concept of serendipity which we are regularly confronted with, when browsing the internet, falling from hyperlink to hyperlink, on information we were not looking for. Serendipity is therefore “the fact of finding something other than what one was looking for”. Returning to the stones and to Roger Caillois, they seem to contain, in theirs stories, interpretations and multiple appreciations, the bases of serendipity. This project was conceived in partnership by the Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry - le Crédac and the Joliot-Curie A school in Ivry-sur-Seine. It benefits from the Direction des services départementaux de l’Éducation nationale du Val-de-Marne.This way of thinking is not foreign to the concept of serendipity, with which we are regularly confronted via internet navigation, by falling from hyperlink to hyperlink, on information that we were not looking for. Serendipity is therefore “the fact of finding something other than what one was looking for”. Returning to the stones and to Roger Caillois, they seem to contain, in their stories, interpretations and multiple appreciations, the bases of serendipity.
This project was conceived in partnership by the Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry - le Crédac and the Joliot-Curie A school in Ivry-sur-Seine. It benefits from the Direction des services départementaux de l’Éducation nationale du Val-de-Marne.