Here!

A festival week, a year of work which really intensive three months and a fine result!

Hundreds of artists exhibited in the form of photographic exhibition, screenings, slideshow, video, films, installations, performances.

Sumptuous prints, made Digigraphie ®, have marked two beautiful spaces that are the Orangerie and the Chai de Bercy: majestic, rich in meaning and history, they were able to showcase the works presented.

The coupling introduced sparked many reactions, positive or negative, they allowed everyone to wonder: why have ignored the chair rails, rods, nails, frameworks, standards, rules and other uses of photo exhibitions ?

Art should it be conformists?

Should he enter rules and boxes?

What is art if not to ask ourselves about the world around us?

For art is precursor influences to come ... it can not be standardized ...

We wanted with this installation at ground level, allowing the viewer to examine and address this vital subject the preservation of our planet.

A vast majority of photographers sent us pictures from around the globe with the same recurrence: should we continue to build ever higher, more densely, without reflection and without regard to overall errors of our neighbors?

Why this propensity to lock up? to move away from our roots?

We ended the first edition of FIIE Wednesday, May 21 by the awards ceremony of the festival and performance Triny Prada.

Triny Prada has raised many questions about the fate of the chickens used in its performance.

The purpose of his subject was to make us think about mass consumption and food.

What do we eat? how?

In démantibulant, mending, reconditionant, knives sharp, trapping in the cable and twine, butcher chickens cooked or raw, Triny questions us. Should you eat without seeing?

The chickens were not industrial chickens, but not free-range chicken, actually a kind of hybrid chicken which was not quite understand the name when we bought the local mall ...

The knives, made in China, industrial vacuum imprisoned, put us to the brilliant documentary by Jennifer Baichwal presented at the FIIE - manufactured landscapes ...
In this performance installation, the artist was not to know what would be the future of chicken because we do not know, alas, what will the future of our food.
We then decided to offer these unfortunate chickens to 20 homeless who camp under the bridge of Bercy, because even if it does not eat them because the performance was to feed our minds, there was no question of throwing them away and enter logic of art gaspi.

Initiative of the public who reacted perfectly.

SUMMARY OF VISITS

We have not been spoiled by the weather between May 14 and May 21, the number of visits between the showers was therefore rather limited. We count the same as about 2,000 visitors and 24,497 physical visits to the site from May 11 to 21 (44 799 1 to May 22 and just over 100,000 since April 1).

Which for a first edition is very honorable.

The feedback from the public are very significant:

The print quality of the topics presented, the diversity of views of the authors and the numbers were delighted. and they voted to 99.99% and have made the game loops several hours to watch, read, comment. Even returning repeatedly, some almost every day ...

Of American, German, English and Belgian have even made the move to come and see this first edition.

The FIIE does not stop there way and we intend to move and allow as many people access it.

We thank all the authors for their trust, partners for their support and all those who took their time to help us get this event.

Although festivalement,

DELPHINE GAMBLIN
Commissioner General