From a first day of exploratory walking, Lorraine Châteaux proposed to apprehend the city through drawing and sketching as a succession of images and scenery. This walk through the city was an opportunity to share everyone’s interests, be they buildings, streets, viewpoints or walking from one place to another following the geographical limits of Ivry-sur-Seine. The varied atmospheres that impressed the memory of the participants during this walking day served as a formal starting point for the volume creations made at Crédac during the three following sessions.
With various materials at their disposal evoking both models and works by Lorraine Châteaux, the participants created a set of forms halfway between sculpture and architectural projection from their “impressions of the city” condensed during the day’s walk. A work of consultation was then carried out in order to produce an imaginary projection of Ivry-sur-Seine on a common stage. This approach is in line with the research that Lorraine Châteaux is carrying out with her works. Her work as a sculptor is nourished by the extraordinary architectural environment in which she grew up: “I lived for nearly twenty years in a dwelling built in the 1970s by Jean Renaudie and Renée Gailhoustet whose architecture, whether pointed or star-shaped, did not allow the furniture to fit in properly. From this maladjustment, the desire and the necessity to rethink the objects and forms that surround us were forged in me. »