PROJECT EXHIBITION

PROJECT EXHIBITION

PROJECT EXHIBITION

INVISIBLES : watch the music

NNIPAS - NI.OST - Belgium

What is NNIPAS   is a multiform artistic project. NNIPAS is the acronym for the French “We would not go if…” For our last edition we were 8 artists: 5 photographers, an author, one illustrator and a sound creator.  N N I P A S is an on-going project, a series of journeys : Participant are Vincent Catala , Christophe Caudroy, Julien Mignot, Tanguy Bizien Photographers, Author. Experiencing a destination that we would otherwise have no reason to go to, if not together.  Here is the images that trace our path and emotions. Why wouldn’t we go ?  We wouldn’t go if we weren’t together We wouldn’t go if we wouldn’t be following the instructions of a master of ceremony.  We wouldn’t go if we wouldn’t want to put ourselves to the test of a given place and of a limited time to create.  The NNIPAS protocol is the following: a  master of ceremony  imposes one or more destinations on the participants. They get there and spend several days together. Our ambition is to deliver an interpretation of the destination through a visual, graphic,textual and sound universe by mixing different techniques and modes of expression. The center of our artistic approach is to value and promote areas that are either little known either undervalued. The destination: a country, a region, a city, a street, a hotel, a room.  The time-period: a week of production, a week of editing, exhibition and restitution. NVI.STM  The ambition, held by master of ceremony Rodolphe Burger was to showcase our work during his music festival “C’est dans la Vallée” which takes place every 2 years in le Val d'argent. In September 2015 we crowdfunded our NNIPAS edition NVI. Generous contributors helped us to bring our projet alive,  installing a container and set our exhibition in St Marie aux mines, during the festival.

NNIPAS - NVI.STM - France

NNIPAS - NV.STL - Jordan

photo Vincent Lappartient

Les Invisibles

Adèle Exarchopoulos In this collaboration between a photographer and an artist, processes and ways of looking come together to compose a series of surreal and dreamlike portraits of musicians, filmmakers and artists. The title of the project les invisibles refers to the hidden forms and imperceptible creatures that make up our aura. David Lynch is the first portrait in the series and acts as the director in this exploration to capture the invisible, drawing forth that which the spotlight conceals. Julien Mignot catches these sightings of les invisibles, finding a significant moment within ephemeral encounters at the festival. The photos shift elsewhere as artist Camille Rousseau gives form to the creatures with her lines and marks, using the unique intimacy of drawing, her lines and marks trace out their presence. Each portrait is different encapsulating the little divinity. for Cannes this year Julien was commissioned by Grazia France, He proposed the portraiture project ‘les invisibles’ to the New Yorker, knowing he would already be taking a lot of interesting portraits throughout his time spent at the internationally acclaimed festival, working for the Daily Grazia Magazine. During a week Camille receive the image every 4 hours and had to create the divinity, the aura that lives around the person, the drawings and compositions made with carbon paper were drawn on top on the images once printed. The composition changed from the original picture, playing with the light or the subject and its environment. The exercice was likely to be a happening that last a week, 4 portraits has to be done in real time and posted in the newyorker instagram feed. The challenge was to be as quick and genuine as possible, understanding each personnality and Julien’s vision.

Les Invisibles Cannes 2015