drawing dreams
In collaboration with the IME Autism Unit and the EEAP (Children and Adolescents with Multiple Disabilities)
At the Raymond Lerch Children’s Center (Le Havre).
In the winter of 2022
Dessiner les rêves is an artistic creation project aiming to produce a plastic work fed by the dreams of these residents and to capture the whole by a photographic project. The project is based on the dialogue between 2 artists, Marion Dutoit, visual artist, a photographer, Théophile Trossat and the children of the Raymond Lerch Children’s Center in Le Havre. This project is an entry in communication with children who do not have the capacity of language, the experience is thus sensorial.
For that, the workshops take place in two stages. First, Marion Dutoit offers several times to groups of one or two children to work on large linen squares, using drawing and painting practices. The artist then reinforces the lines with embroidery. Then, Théophile Trossat joins Marion Dutoit to make large cyanotypes on the same support with the children. The photographer produces documentary images: views of workshops, children in activities (judo, horseback riding, boxing) and their portraits with the collectively dyed fabrics as a background.
In order to cross the whole of the productions, the development of a publication relating the process of emergence of the dreams until their final assembly is in progress.
As part of the “Culture, Health, and Medical-Social Services” initiative of the Normandy Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs and the Normandy Regional Health Agency.
