Les Grandes Personnes

Famille Habanos

Jean-Baptiste — 2018-01-21T10:56:08Z

Walk your Dog

Jean-Baptiste — 2018-01-21T10:51:53Z

Our cousins Mariolles

Jean-Baptiste — 2018-01-21T10:47:40Z

Nightmare

Jean-Baptiste — 2018-01-21T10:43:57Z

Famille Ouroubono

Jean-Baptiste — 2018-01-20T18:44:17Z

Famille Ouroubono - Photo Achromatik 2016

Mafesso à l'atelier

Oncle Jean

Mama Mousso : Photo : Achromatik

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Famille Long

Jean-Baptiste — 2018-01-20T18:42:56Z

Elie - Photo : Achromatik

Renata

Malo - Photo : Achromatik

Céline, Nanie et Odilon - Photo : Achromatik

Marie Rose et Bonaventure

Manon

Isidore

Famille Dayac

Jean-Baptiste — 2018-01-20T18:39:17Z

Adsila - Photo : Achromatik

Josepha et Adsila - Photo : Achromatik

Mamie Suzanne - Photo : Achromatik

Baya - Photo : Achromatik

Baya

Petit Bandit - Photo : Achromatik

Malo - Photo : Achromatik

Madame Dayac - Photo : Achromatik

Madame Dayac

Madame Dayac - Photo : LGP

Bestiary

Jean-Baptiste — 2018-01-20T18:33:33Z

OISILLON

Crapauds - Photo : Achromatik

PINTADES

CHEVAUX JUPONS

TON BEC

About Giants

Christine Schultz-Touge — 2018-01-20T18:21:05Z

If Les Grandes Personnes parade with giant puppets rather than performing fleas, it's not only because they are more visible, easier to display, more successful as sculptures on the scale of the city. It is also because they let us get back in touch with the giants of our legends, of all the legends of the world.
They are our predecessors on the planet; searchers when they discovered the first fossilised bones were fascinated by their extreme size and hardness and concluded that they belonged to prehistoric giants.
Titans, Cyclopes or ogres, they shaped the earth.

Just for fun, they threw mountain peaks into the Mediterranean and created islands. They precisely assembled enormous blocks to form the walls of the Mycenaean and the Tiryns. Elsewhere, dolmens and menhirs served as their gravestones or else tables and stools. They were perhaps also our ancestors. At any rate, the giant Er-Töshtürk engendered the Kirghiz, Soslan the Ossetians.
Their vitality is often thuggish, disorderly and even mutinous. They are not the type to be happy with little. Some like Briareos climbed the heavens to challenge the gods. Others robbed secrets: Prometheus stole those of fire and Gilgamesh that of immortality. Still others lived on volcanos where their immense strength was used to forge rings and shields.
Who incarnated so massively the desire to pace out immense spaces, to know everything that could be learned, to devour all that is offered? The perfect example is Rabelais's Gargantua.
Of course, the gods took their vengeance… Bright little warriors, like Theseus, William and Arthur conquered the giants. But they did not erase their presence. They are still there, on the hillside of Cerne Abbas in England, in the names of streets and villages, in the carnivals of Europe and elsewhere.

About Giant Puppets

Christine Schultz-Touge — 2018-01-20T18:20:37Z

Adapted to the scale of our cites, well-known from Gallic ceremonies, the carnival of Flanders or Catalonia as well as the protest creations of the Bread & Puppet Theater, giant puppets abruptly send us back to our childhood: they are roughly the size of an adult for a four-year-old child. Their excessive magnitude calls for collective creation and teamwork all the way to manipulation and gives them maximum visibility. Those who carry and animate one suddenly enjoy new respect: people look at them differently.

The giant puppets that we build display several qualities: they are an instrument of scale, a measure of the city, they make it possible to look with a new gaze at the architecture and urban landscape. They remain visible in the middle of a crowd and evoke universal myths. The specificity of giant puppets is that you don't choose to look at them. They force you to look. They peacefully invade each person's space. They shout out. While playful objects, they are also impressive vectors of thought-out fantasies. They amuse, they fascinate, but they also disturb. They give unusual volume and movement to our mental representations. Humanly, they are a powerful symbol of collective practices and teamwork, objects of encounters and exchanges, of highlighting complementarities. They give wide visibility to the communities that have built them and that animate them. They especially change the regard of the passer-by, of the neighbour, not only about their neighbourhood but also about the people that operate the puppets.