The booklet of the exhibition

My short biography:

My name is Laura Combes. I was born in Aurillac, on the 15th of July 1994, so I am 15 and a half years old. I live in Aurillac.I have no brothers or sisters. My favourite passtime is listening to music. I study in Saint Joseph secondary school.

Je me prénomme Laura Combes. Je suis née le 15 Juillet 1994, à Aurillac, j'ai donc 15 ans et demi. J'habite à Aurillac.Je n'ai pas de frère et soeur. Mon passe-temps préféré est écouter de la musique. J'étudie au lycée Saint Joseph, en seconde générale.

The title of our work and the type of media chosen:

If we were a landscape. We will make a video.

Si nous étions un paysage. Nous allons réaliser une vidéo.

Our idea on our work:

I have chosen this place to represent me because this place awake some memories in me: it's at this place that I learned to walk and when I was younger, when I wasn't fine I went to this place to resource me. Moreover,we hope that the visitors will understand our personnality: we are calm and we like nature, freedom and animals.We hope, too, that the visitors will understand why we have chosen this place to represent us.
J'ai choisi cette place pour me représenter parce que elle éveille quelques souvenirs en moi: c'est à cet endroit que j'ai appris à marcher et quand j'étais plus jeune, lorsque je n'allais pas bien je venais me ressourcer à cet endroit. De plus, nous espérons que les visiteurs vont comprendre notre personnalité: nous sommes calmes et nous aimons la nature, la liberté et les animaux. Nous espérons également que les visiteurs vont comprendre pourquoi nous avons choisi ce lieu pour nous représenter.

Relevant song:

"Earth song" of Michael Jackson. This song is about nature and peace. With this song, Michael Jackson wanted to increase public awareness of what we do on the nature, the planet. This song represent our work very well because our work speaks a lot about nature: we wanted you to understand that nature is a very good present and it's not necessary to modify it; we must protect and preserve it.

"Earth song" de Michael Jackson. Cette chanson parle de la nature et de la paix. Avec cette chanson, Michael Jackson voulait sensibiliser le public à propos de ce que nous faisons subir à la nature et à la planète. Cette chanson représente très bien notre oeuvre car notre oeuvre parle beaucoup de la nature: nous voulons vous faire comprendre que la nature est un très beau cadeau et qu'il n'est pas nécessaire de la modifier; nous devons au contraire la protéger et la préserver.

The project:: If I were a lanscape

For this exhibition, we will make a video with some photos taken in the Square, in Aurillac.
This park's landscapes, avove all the fountain, represent us very well because it represents calm, peace and freedom. Moreover, it awake some memories in us : for me, it remembers me that it was here that I learned to walk and that when I was younger, I went here to resource me when I wasn't fine. For this video, we will record a dialogue between Rémi and me, in this park and in this dialogue we will explain what this landscape represent, why we like this lanscape and why it represent our personality.

Pour cette exposition, nous allons réaliser une vidéo avec des photos prises dans le parc du Square, à Aurillac. Les paysages de ce parc, surtout celui avec la fountain, nous représente bien car il représente le calme, la paix et la liberté. De plus, ce lieu éveille des souvenirs en nous: pour moi, cela me rapelle que c'est ici que j'ai appris à marcher et que quand j'étais plus jeune, quand je n'allais pas bien je venais me ressourcer ici. Pour cette vidéo, nous allons enregistrer un dialogue, entre Rémi et moi, dans lequel nous allons expliquer ce que représente ce paysage, pourquoi nous l'aimons bien et pourquoi il représente notre personnalité.

Musical me

Michael Jackson: Heal the world:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwrSVDRP-2Y
This song represent me because it is about peace and generosity and and I am for the peace and generosity. Moreover, I like this song because it's a beautiful song for the children in the world and it's my favourite singer.











Michael Jackson: Bad:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnroWnC6seQ
I like the rythm of this song. In this song, Michael Jackson is a little crazy.
It represent me because sometimes, I can be a little crazy.

The beauty

Today, we realize that physical appearance is more important than in the 20's. Today, we haven't got the same definition of beauty as in the 20's.
Beauty is so important, a "Miss France" competition was created in 1910.
In the 20's, a pretty woman had to have some forms, whereas today models are very thin.Thus, beauty always worried more or less the human: 77 000 years ago, humans were already worried by beauty; even the man of Neandertal was looking for beauty.
The beauty's search at the human, isn't recent, that's why l'Oreal Foundation decided to publish an enormous encyclopedia called"100 000 years of beauty". Then, some others writers decided to publish some beauty's books. Thus, in the course of years, beauty is more and more important for human (above all for woman who use a lot of cosmetics) but beauty's meaning change in the course of generations.

Sandy Skoglund:Radioactive Cats (1980)

1) Words/ideas/feelings that come to mind...
Strange animals,old people, uglyness, old furniture
2) This photo is part of a series called "Family Portraits"...
What kind of is it?!(it's a photographic portrait, but it's also...)?
This photographic portrait looks like a painting.
3) What does it show (describe the various elements, the situation, the atmosphere,etc.)?
It shows some strange, ugly and green cats. It's a morbide atmosphere because there aren't no colours juxt two cold colours which are green and black.I suppose the scene takes place in a kitchen.
4) What are the themes?(ugliness...)
The themes are uglyness and old age.
5) What is the "message" (if any)?
Maybe the illustrator wants to show us radioactivity's danger.
6)What, based on this example, is the purpose of (this work of)"art"?

Some photos of adverts in Aurillac

These photos were taken in Aurillac, at buses' shelters.
This is two photos of two differents fragances:"Trésor" of Lancôme and "J'adore" of Dior.These photos represent beauty and sensuality.These two photos show women's beauty and purity. It shows two elegant and attractive women.
I have choosen these two photos because I like fragance and in Christmas time a fragance can be a beautiful present.

A world of opposites

How we see ourself is conditionned by the images around: the images reflect in we reinforce in our mind societies values.
Game: take photos of the world arrond you ( pub, pictures, places things events... but not real people) on the theme of contrast.
Ugly: Beautiful
Weak: Stong
Dumb: Smart/ Bright/ Clever/ Intelligent...
Nasty: Nice
Ill: Healthy
Bad: Good
Quiet: Loud
ETC...
Put this images on your blogs with comments.
We often think in terms of opposites, like "ugly" versus "beautiful". Beauty is perhaps in the eye beholder, but advertisers reinforce our simplistic-binary vision of the world, two conditions our way of seeing things; we hand up thinking on steriotipes.
Should we not nuance our vision of things? Are people just "ugly" or "beautiful"?Our way of seeing others can be destructive of others...When looking at a portrait or someone's self-portrait, go beyond juging a person by their appearence, who they are is more important than what they look like. Ask yourself's: what can I learn from a person's appearence; how is his /her life, his/her feelings "written" on his/her face?