Travelling exhibition "In-Utile. A photographic journey"

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  • Dates : September 6 to 25, 2017
  • Opening hours: 09h00 - 17h00
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From September 6 to 25, 2017
Opening Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 1pm

Faculté d'Éducation (site de Nîmes), 62 rue Vincent Faïta, Nîmes

Maxcasa captures the useless gesture

Photographer Maxcasa has created a traveling exhibition born of the encounter between dance and photography, in pursuit of the "useless gesture"... To be discovered from September 6 at the Faculté d'Éducation - site de Nîmes.
There are five of them, in tight-fitting black and white suits. A few words, and then all hell breaks loose... A breathless race. Gestures follow one another relentlessly, places are crossed, traversed, exhausted by the dancers. Faces scarred by effort, their bodies cross, grab, embrace or push each other away. Hearts race. Faces beady with tension. Costumes come off, get lost along the way...

In search of the useless gesture

Maxcasa's sharp eye catches the bodies set in motion by choreographer Leonardo Montecchia (Cie de la Mentira). This unclassifiable choreographer, who likes to track down our everyday gestures, spent several months in residence at the University of Montpellier in 2015 and 2016. Immersed in this "city at the heart of the city" with its 45,000 students and 4,500 staff, Leonardo and his performers lived among its inhabitants, tracking down that rarity: the "useless gesture".
Photographer Maxcasa now brings us still images of the choreographer's eventful work. Everything is offered, but you have to seize it," he says. If you run slower than the dancers, you won't find your place. If you run too fast, they'll have disappeared behind a back door. Without warning, they create a dance space between two staircases or two walls.

"Stories in Light

Maxcasa is a Montpellier-based professional photographer specializing in reportage, portraiture, architecture, live performance, studio and video. " I tell stories through light, in the service of the people I photograph. I cast a subjective and benevolent eye on them, 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, letting yourself be overwhelmed by a look. To go through sublime moments, wonderful encounters, improbable situations, so as not to forget anything and to take advantage of everything we are given to see, the better to offer it in return ".
In-Utile. A choreographic journey, photographs by Maxcasa
Travelling exhibition within the UM, from September 2017 to Spring 2018:

  • from Sept. 26 to Oct. 28 at LIRMM ;
  • from october 30 to nov 24 in STAPS (hall stade Veyrassi) ;
  • from November 27 to December 21 at BU Richter.