During ten sessions, four teenage girls from the Bourges medical-psychological center were accompanied by Marion Chevalier, visual artist, throughout a creative process.
The opening of the works resulting from this cultural and therapeutic journey took place yesterday, in the Valvert multipurpose room of the George Sand hospital center.
“The initial question was: how to represent a space?,” explains Marion Chevalier. Traditionally, in the West, we think of and represent the landscape as an expanse of country that is visible to us. However, hearing, touch or smell are also invited to this encounter. How then can we account for this experience with all the senses? »
The artist first accompanied the teenage girls to the Lazenay garden where they took photos and then transcribed the ambient sounds and textures into pictorial representations. “The photographs allowed them to remember the sensations felt in the garden. »
At the same time, a dozen adolescents aged 11 to 18, in child psychiatric care, participated in a cultural and therapeutic journey built in partnership with the Bourges National School of Art (Ensa), the Saint-Bonnet theater and the Bourges House of Culture. They were able to participate in artistic workshops, visits to exhibitions and live shows.
Around thirty people attended this art-oriented opening with a musical interlude offered by Thierry Sureau on the saxophone.
This course was part of the Cap or pacap project carried out by the George Sand hospital center.
