Thinking with things: reflections on a visual and material ethnography in a Parisian street.

The paper aims to be a methodological reflection on an artistic residency carried out at The Windows gallery in Paris between June and November 2014. It was an experimental project of visual and material ethnography in the domestic interiors of a street in Paris, in which the materialities that make up the house (photographs, objects, spaces and images) would not only be the main object of observation (through an exhaustive photographic record), but also the devices through which to analyze and build a communicative narrative of that ethnographic experience. The paper will show on the one hand the process and result of this experience, as well as the ideas that can emerge from such an undertaking, but above all it will address the main problems, challenges and opportunities that this type of project brings with it for the development of anthropological work. We will seek to dialogue with approaches such as those of Tim Ingold (Ingold 2013b; 2013a), who proposes to do anthropology with materialities, in order to approach that "flow" in which social life happens, from logics and practices closer to art. Likewise, with reflections such as the one developed with Francisco Martinez (2021) on the possibilities that open up when experimenting with other types of supports and logics, such as art or design in ethnographic work.