Notes pour trop tard

Clarisse, Paikea, Damien, Océane, Nicolas, Melissa and the others. On the threshold of adulthood, in this prolonged adolescence, how do they see themselves at the St-Maurice vocational school, where they are expected to consolidate their knowledge and acquire new notions useful for vocational training? The aim, we read in a document presenting the school, is to develop working methods that encourage responsibility, autonomy, and personal research. The aim is to facilitate the choice of subsequent training. Observing the glances, the positions, the interactions, the few sun-dappled settings, the concrete backdrop, the tall trees in the courtyard, whose scale reduces these students to tiny young shoots, one perceives the silence of this apnea before the impetus takes shape, the direction to be taken, a space-time conducive to the awe of what is going to happen, and will happen because it has been decided. Life doesn't wait, you either take it or you don't; in the face of the institutional rigor embodied by this school, everyone radiates his or her own individuality, his or her own being in the world. Photographer Jean Luc Andrianasolo has captured these not-yet-determined possibilities, brimming with potential, and invites us to take part in the deafening silence that precedes the first steps towards what's going to happen to us. Florence Grivel