Collaborative workshop and installation
“Mai 68 : Assemblée Générale” exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2018
In collaboration with Victor Guégan and graphic design students at ESAD Amiens
The Popular Photography Studio emerged from a four-day workshop I led at ESAD Amiens (École Supérieure d’Art et de Design d’Amiens) in collaboration with graphic design professor Victor Guégan. The workshop, titled “Tools of Anger,” explored the relationship between art, collective action, and revolution, taking the students’ and workers’ movement of May 1968 as its central reference. Working with students who had no prior connection to my practice, I was interested in how a shared conceptual framework could generate genuinely new and unexpected forms.
A chroma studio was set up and members of the audience were invited to write text in cut-out speech bubbles. The student team photographed each participant and superimposed their image onto a background of their choice using image editing software. The resulting images were often commentaries on current socio-political and ecological topics.
The Popular Photography Studio was one of the outcomes of that process — alongside interactive performances, videos, and site-specific interventions — and was presented as part of the “Mai 68 : Assemblée Générale” exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Participating students
Camille de Boisfleury, Alexandre D’Hubert, Ayasha Khan, Basile Dolfus, Blanche Dumont, Enora Jaouen, Estelle Dion, Emma Geslot, Nathan Le Bras, Gaelle Parachini, Juliette Ah-Chine, Raphaël Licoine-Mercy, Justine Magnat, Mia Thibierge, Louise Servan, Lucie Coupin, Paul Rivet, Pauline Haillet, J.B. Burguet, Pauline Etre, Nicolas Verguin, Julie Nesty, Justine Magnat-Biermé, Camille Ternois, Léa Fernandez, Maulde Vallejo, Capucine Dromby, Richard Terrazzoni.
Bassem Yousri 