“To achieve social cohesion”, according to Anne-Maud Toret, who coordinates the project, the inhabitants of Croix-Bonneau, united in an association, first organized an exhibition on site around the industrial and heritage history of this district of western Nantes. Then, the seventeen panels of archive documents and children's drawings were re-exhibited at the Bois-Hercé reception center, in November 2021, as well as at the Grande Galerie, on the island of Nantes , in February 2022. They are now visible in the gardens of rue des Sables-d'Olonne.
This collective, cultural and memorial action made it possible to create links between residents, some of whom still live in the house where they were born or, as children, knew Carrière-Barré, the flower fields of La Durantière, the shops and cafés on rue de la Convention, which have now disappeared… Their precious anecdotes constitute a part of Nantes' history, going from the Second World War to the 1980s. The content will also be available on the Nantes website Heritage.
Based on the testimonies transcribed in the exhibition catalogue, the Croix-Bonneau is exhibited and reinvented. We matched these stories with graphic and audio transmission media: ten portraits of women and men who live or have lived at Croix-Bonneau were exhibited in front of the Chantenay town hall last summer, and will be visible at the Lisa-Bresner media library, until December 20. The interviews with eight of them, by the ID Numérique association, were posted online; Finally, from the pen of the author Anne-Gaël Gauducheau, a work combining portraits, poems and illustrations of artists retraces their life story. It will be published Thursday December 5.
Word of the invisibles. Portraits of inhabitants of Croix-Bonneau, €10, on order at [email protected] and at the Coiffard bookstore, www.croixbonneau.fr.
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