Traveling exhibition "In-Utile. A choreographic journey"

May 4 to June 7, 2018
Opening Tuesday, May 15, 2018, at 12 p.m.
Photography exhibition by Maxcasa
IES cafeteria (building 5), St Priest campus

Maxcasa captures the unnecessary gesture

Photographer Maxcasa presents a traveling exhibition born from the encounter between dance and photography, in pursuit of the "useless gesture"...
There are five of them, dressed in tight-fitting black and white costumes. A few words, then everything goes wild... A breathless race. The movements follow one another relentlessly, the dancers crossing, traversing, and exhausting the space. Their faces marked by effort, their bodies intersect, grab, embrace, or push each other away. Hearts race. Faces glisten with tension. Costumes come loose, lost along the way...
Maxcasa

In search of the useless gesture

Maxcasa's keen eye captures the bodies set in motion by choreographer Leonardo Montecchia (Cie de la Mentira). This unclassifiable choreographer, who loves to track our everyday gestures, spent several months in residence at the University of Montpellier in 2015 and 2016 (see the article "Précieux inutile"). Immersed in this "city within a city" with its 45,000 students and 4,500 staff, Leonardo and his performers lived among its inhabitants, tracking down that rare thing: the "useless gesture."
Photographer Maxcasa now brings us still images of the choreographer's dynamic work. " Everything is offered, but you have to seize it," he says. " If you run slower than the dancers, you have no chance of finding your place. If you run too fast, they will have disappeared behind a hidden door. Without warning, they create a space for dance between two staircases or two walls."

“Stories in the Spotlight”

A professional photographer based in Montpellier, specializing in reportage, Maxcasa also works in portraiture, architecture, live performance, studio photography, and video. " I tell stories through light, serving the people I photograph. I look at them with a subjective and benevolent eye, faithful to the trust they place in me. Responding to a smile with an image, constantly searching for the point of truth in a scene, bringing out the lines of a composition, allowing myself to be moved by a glance. Experiencing sublime moments, wonderful encounters, improbable situations, so as not to forget anything and to enjoy everything we are given to see in order to offer it back in return."
Traveling exhibition at the UM, from September 2017 to spring 2018.