On vacation with Jeannie L

an artistic cycling epic between lakes and ocean – 2024 – 2 nd adventure

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Next public event :

October 4, 2024, at the Pola factory

Opening of the exhibition En vacances avec jeannie L

YES POWER CLUB concert by Toto et les Sauvages

Imagine a group made up of artists in residence, atypical neuro youths, unaccompanied minors, families from the Bacalan and Benauge districts of Bordeaux and their respective educators. This group shares a 3-day journey, an artistic and social experiment, with the look and feel of a summer camp. We find the same markers, collective experience, water activities, picnics, bike mobility, deceleration of time… What distinguishes it from a summer camp is the presence of artists Lucile Martinez and Pina Wood Together, they have traveled through landscapes not far from home, and this adventure will take shape in works produced by these artists, inspired by real-life moments, captured conversations, knowing smiles, the witness of a camp crush, a shared ice cream cone, nights spent in a camping tent…

The social structures involved are: R-d’Accueil – Rénovation, AD’appro – Institut Don Bosco and the Bacalan and Benauge activity centers.

Camille Téqui, video artist, accompanied us throughout the project to film this adventure.

She produced two filmed opuses, the first documenting the encounters that preceded the trip, focusing on the logistical and technical organization of the trip.
The second opus (to be discovered at the exhibition) retraces the journey, the vacation and the adventure.

Not everyone can go on vacation, it’s a privilege, sometimes it takes audacity, often it takes money, or others who accompany us. What about those who don’t go on vacation, or who don’t go very often? It’s for them that we wanted to propose a collective escapade, a human adventure, an artistic epic. These vacations will take place on bicycles, with people who don’t go on vacation, and with artists.

En vacances avec Jeannie L is an experiment in “us” – artists and cultural players – making a place for ourselves in the daily lives of people far removed from our professions, and giving them a place in our artistic practices.

En vacances avec Jeannie L is a creative framework, a set of rules that sets up the conditions for this encounter, envisaging that the beneficiaries are as much the public who pedal as the young artists embarking on this adventure.

The group of travelers is formed from partnerships with social structures that support unaccompanied minors (R-d’acceuil – Rénovation), neuro-atypical young adults (AD’appro – Institut Don Bosco) and families from the Bacalan and Benauge districts.

This group, made up of travelers, educators, artists and members of Bruit du frigo, brings together 32 people. The trip is developed throughout the year with the participants. It includes meetings with cultural operators along the way, to build bridges and enable travelers to discover cultural and artistic initiatives, and experiment with artistic practices.

Guest artists

Young women artists who need to make their atypical approaches visible in a dedicated and recognized venue for art and culture in Bordeaux. They have been chosen for their ability to create contextual works, open to encounters, and to tell the story of a collective adventure.

Lucile Martinez : visual art

After studying Fine Arts in Angers, Lucile moved to Toulouse to be closer to the mountains she loves so much. Lucile loves to travel! Always higher, not necessarily very far, in a group or on her own. She pays homage to the landscapes she encounters, the people she meets, the scenes of life she witnesses. Color is drawn and applied to paper and textiles. It is pushed to its paroxysm equal to the feelings and impressions Lucile has experienced and wishes to share with us. Shimmering and generous, discreet yet self-assured, this wisp of a woman thrills our eyes with instinctive painting, chromatic motifs and color as absolute.

Pina Wood: Director, Playwright, Poet

Pina Wood is a polymorphous artist who describes herself as an anthropopoet. She wanders, chatters, oralizes (which means you have to read her texts aloud. She specifies that it’s best if you stand on a table and toast the audience). Her practice invents collaborative rituals where giving and taking the floor become the subject of research. She works with the intimate and the stories she listens to attentively, those of society, those of the people she works with, those of the territories. Pina Wood’s ambition is to reveal to the world what we don’t see or hear.

Camille Téqui : visual art, video artist

Video artist, she defines herself as a field filmmaker. Working in the Aquitaine region for the past fifteen years, she specializes in videodance and social portraits.
With her camera in hand, she films like a choreographer.