Tenter l’art pour soigner - À l’hôpital psychiatrique de Blida-Joinville dans les années 1960
Opublikowane przez Sophie P
- From środa, października 22, 2025 to niedziela, stycznia 3, 2027
- 10:00-19:00
- Institut du Monde Arabe 1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris, Francja
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At the Arab World Institute, Trying Art to Heal presents gouaches, ceramics, and archives from the workshops of an Algerian psychiatric hospital. The works were created by patients from Blida-Joinville in the late 1960s. The exhibition displays their drawings and revisits the conditions under which they were able to paint within the institution.
The archives place these workshops within a history begun several years earlier. As chief physician at Blida from 1953 to 1956, Frantz Fanon sought to break with practices of colonial psychiatry. With the team and the patients, he made room for collective activities and adapted them to their social and cultural environment. His successors continued this approach. The drawing workshops from which the gouaches come give tangible form to this work.
Some boards bear a signature and a date, such as a gouache by Moussaoui S. from October 1968. Others are anonymous. Gathered with the hospital documents, they allow us to return to those who created them. The exhibition shows what drawing opened up in terms of expressive possibilities, by letting the works tell something that medical records alone cannot convey.
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Sophie P@institutdumondearabe
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Institut du Monde Arabe
1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris, Francja