On Saturday, October 3rd, the church and school of Saint-Jean-de-Vaulx host a group exhibition. Several artists from the area show their work, mostly paintings. Among these pieces, Itamde presents "Ceux qui voient," a photography and drawing series made with the artist Ketty Piles. Admission is free, from morning through the afternoon.
Five animals, five gazes
The original series holds five photographs, taken over the summer and closed on September 21st: the eye of a Comtois horse, the eye of a blue-eyed dog, a grey cat's eye, the eye of a black-and-white pied horse, a cow's eye. Nothing else stays in the frame. The animal disappears, only the eye remains, along with whatever can be read in it. It's an exercise that continues one carried out recently in the forest, in autumn light.
The title shifted meaning along the way. "Ce qu'ils voient" (what they see) looked from the animal's side. "Ceux qui voient" (those who see) widens the question to whoever looks at the photograph, and by extension to whoever visits the exhibition on October 3rd.
Ketty Piles's drawing
Ketty Piles works in transparency over the prints. On each photograph, she adds in pencil a shape that runs through the iris, a texture recalling a landscape, a plant, a material. The drawing doesn't cover the photo, it layers onto it, and that layering is what gives the exhibition its title: you need to look twice to see what the eye already held. Her work can be found on her Facebook page, Flurflur.arts.
La nature humaine, a piece apart
A sixth image steps outside the series. It shows a bull tied up at an agricultural fair, wearing a numbered tag, 088. The title, "La nature humaine" (human nature), is a deliberate choice, a piece that looks for discomfort rather than comfort. Ketty Piles had full creative freedom on this image, and her work wasn't shown in advance.
One day, two places
The exhibition takes over the church and the school of the village of Saint-Jean-de-Vaulx, in the IsΓ¨re region of France, on Saturday, October 3rd, 2026, from morning through the afternoon. Visitors move from one space to the other, between the other artistsβ works and our own series "Ceux qui voient." Admission is free.
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