Scandal! A chase between racing cars in the center of Besançon (FR)! To the astonishment of passersby, cars in cardboard boxes straight out of the imagination of the students of the Pasteur high school arose from the Quai Vauban before rushing into the Place de la Révolution. The tires screeched around the fountain before the machines took over the management of the Pasteur high school.

At the origin of the event : the visual artist Benedetto Bufalino, in residency at the Pasteur high school in Besançon and at the Luxembourg high school in Vesoul (FR). This residency allowed students to take part in the preparation and the realization of an urban performance typical of the artist’s approach. Benedetto Bufalino is “an artist not of museum but of street”, tells us the art historian Paul Ardenne, an artist who “reconfigures” our daily life “in the mode of a good joke which is always the occasion to leave to think“.

In the urban performance produced with the high school students, the diverted luxury car seems to be turned against the values ​​it usually represents: luxury cars, yes, but tinkered with cardboard, poor material if any, and a use which, with the privilege of driving alone behind the wheel of a rare object, opposes the pleasure of the collective parade, imprinted with a spirit of childhood and carnival.