For this new season of Un Été Au Havre, Gaël Charbau has sought to continue developing the work carried out with ESADHaR students in the public space. In 2022 and 2023, students took part in a workshop allowing them to develop a real project for the upcoming season of Un Été Au Havre. Each and every one had to tackle the constraints of such an event: respecting a budget, imagining a project that adapts to the many hazards of open-air art and forming part of a "project ecosystem" involving the event's delegated producers, etc. After several working sessions and the final presentation of the mock-ups, Emma Ertzscheid's project was selected.
In Coup de vent, she offers us a funny, light and poetic work, composed of clothes frozen in resin and suspended in certain streets of the city, as if brought to life by a real gust of wind. With this seemingly simple gesture, she projects the atmosphere of certain Italian and southern French towns into the vocabulary of Perret architecture. With their multiple forms and colours and different histories, the clothes chosen by Emma Ertzscheid speak to us of everyday life, different social roots and impromptu encounters between the uniform of the worker, the student, the senior manager or the schoolboy, among others. She brings the streets to life with a piece that responds to the artistic director's desire to bring art to life throughout the city, multiplying opportunities to discover artistic proposals.
Behind the apparent banality of the objects floated in this way, suspended on clotheslines, this project also allows the artist to show the other side of a social decoration, to highlight this "border" space of clothing that represents us before others and offers us a label – a well-defined space within society.
