The Méandres exhibition will take place at the IESA arts&culture gallery from June 14 to 18, 2021. This project is organized by Armelle Cozic and Illah Abdul Nasir in the MBA in Arts and Cultural Management at IESA arts&culture.
Méandres is an exhibition dedicated to extraordinary artists who rarely exhibit and who create within a Day Occupational Center, under the impetus of art therapists, or with a need for expression to channel a psychological disorder.
To explore the meanders of these creations, they went to meet the artists, who welcomed them warmly at the Centre Occupationnel de Jour (COJ) Dumonteil. There they develop their capacities for autonomy, creation, and communal life. They draw freely on the suggestions of Amélie Dutheil (educational monitor) and Florence Ye (psychologist) during the ÊTRE workshop (Exist - Work - Dream - Together), which opens the world of graphic arts to them, and of Patricia Padovani (art therapist), who lets them explore space, movement, and vocal expression. With the suggestions given to them, they weave worlds of their own that move away from the set framework. The COJ Dumonteil gave us access to images of the show "Glan Glan Zo," created with people with disabilities and presented on November 8, 2019, from which we took the images of the musician Manuel de Faya’s "ritual dance of Fire," performed by Mariama Diallo.