Cariatides

• Funding: Lyon Métropole Habitat
• Artistic direction: Marianne Homiridis / Project Office

The Cariatides work is inaugurated on the occasion of the 33rd European Heritage Days and maintained for a period of 5 years.

Cariatides is a monumental frieze by Yveline Loiseur entangling staging and improvisations, with questions about what can be said about her place of life and her large ensemble.
The work is titled Caryatids. It unfolds on the base of a housing bar, 120 meters long. This panoramic is conceived as a musical writing. It makes the link between the figures and the place, it marks the fragility and the instability of the images. In the spirit of a small theater of situation, between poetic construction and documentary rigor, the portraits are the fruit of a work of meetings and discussions with the inhabitants who, replaying the collective model of the building, recompose a new relational geography. Each portrait tells us, perhaps, "that a being supposedly fixed in one place is always in reality participating in several worlds." (Jacques Rancière)

With its title, we can see the symbol contained in the tradition of the Atlanteans and Caryatids who, integrating human figures in the architecture, support columns or pillars in memory of the work of Atlas. And Agnès Varda's short film, Les Dites caryatids bis (1984), tells us how fascinating these monumental figures are through the lines of the poem La beauté by Charles Baudelaire.