Crédit photo : © Pauline Thollet, Bordures, 2022.
HORS LES MURS #6 - Pauline Thollet
Since 2017, the 1+2 Hors les murs scheme is a scheme of photographic residencies in well-defined territories, on the scale of a commune or a valley, in Haute-Garonne (Castelnau d’Estrétefonds,…) or in Occitania.
As part of the 1+2 Outside the walls Residency #6, realized with the support of Estrétefonds Town Hall and in partnership with the association Le Capech à la Cote, the photographer Pauline Thollet is developing a photographic project on the body in movement. For several months, she has focused on the idea of tension and release, observing the relationship to the other that these different types of energy induce.
Pauline wishes to fix the bodies in search of the freedom generated by sport and let their appeasement radiate. She met with different sports associations in the municipality, inviting herself to MMA, rowing, pole-dance, karate, classical dance, basketball, volleyball and football classes. Finally, the footages isolates the bodies. They underline some links, a solidarity and an implicit relationship with the other, but the characters are only there to testify of their strength and the need to be in themselves. “Edges", are the loaded bodies that occupy the limits of the frame, that defy them, that bump into them or abandon them. They are the invisible borders that delimit these spaces, containers of strain, those that are juxtaposed with the rest of the world.
In partnership with the Conseil départemental de la Haute-Garonne, Castelnau d'Estrétefonds Ma Ville, the association "Le Capech a la cote" and 9 Lives Magazine.
