Residency Eric Baudelaire
with the National Institute for Young Blind People (INJA)
Workshop in residency until 30 Dec 2026
Still 405 days
Filmed at the National Institute for Young Blind People (INJA), this project takes the form of a collaboration with blind students who film their daily lives with their own cameras. Part observational cinema, part collective work, it questions the notion of sight and the construction of images when our understanding of the world relies on senses other than sight. It thus brings out a broader experience of perception and redefines the experience of the visible thanks to those who do not ‘see’ but nevertheless teach us to see again. Following this same principle, INJA students are invited to the Foundation's workshops to produce sculptures, which become forms and testimonies of a different relationship with the world.
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Since 2019, the Atelier en Résidence has embodied Lafayette Anticipations' commitment to transmission and co-creation. Each year, an artist is invited to devise a new project with a middle or high school class, in close collaboration with the French National Education Academies, teachers and students. This artistic adventure unfolds over the course of a school year and culminates in the collective creation of a work of art, fuelled by research workshops, exchanges and meetings at the Foundation. Since the launch of the Atelier en Résidence, the Fondation has collaborated with Marguerite Humeau and the Jeanne Baret horticultural secondary school (Montreuil), Boris Charmatz and the Alfred Costes secondary school (Bobigny), Cécile B. Evans and the Suger secondary school (Saint-Denis) and Neïl Beloufa and the Alfred Nobel secondary school (Clichy-sous-Bois).
