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Diagonales

Carine Klonowski

An artistic creation workshop on the observation of stones, research and digital technologies led by the artist Carine Klonowski with CM2 students of Éric Chatron from the Joliot-Curie A school in Ivry-sur-Seine.

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.

Video(s)

Diagonales, vidéo réalisée lors de la résidence menée par Carine Klonowski avec les élèves de la classe de CM2 de l’école Joliot-Curie A à Ivry-sur-Seine.

Artist biography

  • Carine Klonowski (born in 1989, lives and works in Chelles) graduated from the École Européenne Supérieure de l’Image in Angoulême in 2012. In parallel to her own artistic practice, Carine Klonowski has conducted between 2013 and 2016 a research course in Letters and Arts at the University of Paris VII, devoted to the study of color gradation, from classical painting to contemporary artistic practices.Her work develops around questions related to the image and its modes of appearance, reception, transmission and duplication. She studies and manipulates its essential components - light, color, time, figuration, abstraction. Through installation, video and printed images, she creates an atmospheric work in which she activates her pieces through texts or performances. Her practice is as much marked by romantic painting and colorfield as it is by literature, science fiction cinema and video games. More recently, her research focuses on the medium of the screen, on the technological devices of transmission and display of the image. Drawing in particular on the theories of software studies and media archaeology, she aims at a critical and sensitive exploration of a technotope or mediascape, a world in which the screen affects ecosystems, humans and landscape, and vice versa.
    She is also co-founder of sun7 editions - an independent publishing house focused on the manipulation of the book and the image - and a member of the curatorial collective Le Syndicat Magnifique - mainly active in the Île-de-France region.

Partnerships

Ce projet a été conçu en partenariat par le Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry - le Crédac et l’école Joliot-Curie A d’Ivry-sur-Seine. Il bénéficie du soutien de la Direction des services départementaux de l’Éducation nationale du Val-de-Marne.

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