La photonière – workshops with Sibylle Duboc

As part of the exhibition “Le spectaculaire à l’épreuve de la matière”, Sibylle Duboc conducted a series of workshops inviting participants to explore photographic material, from analog to digital practices.
Using images captured on smartphones, students from Les Mimosas (Mandelieu) and Lycée Amiral de Grasse were able to questions the status of contemporary imagery (abundant, immaterial, and vernacular), giving it back body and substance through photographic and chemical experiments.
During these workshops, through manipulation, subversion, and darkroom printing, the students became photographic alchemists, transforming their screens into a critical reflection on their relationship with images.

Sibylle Duboc (born in 1995) is a visual artist whose research is anchored in photographic experimentation and performance. She explores human-altered landscapes and the traces of the Anthropocene, metamorphosing images and materials into fictional geological forms. By turning our industrial system into contemporary fossils, her work highlights the ruins of our modernity through a chimerical archaeology.