with Marion Dutoit and Théophile Trossat

Public: Patients in respiratory follow-up care and rehabilitation and palliative care departments

Location: University Hospital Bois-Guillaume

Timeframe: Three days of workshops with the two artists, three days of embroidery workshops and three days of photography workshops.

As a follow-up to the first part of the Dessiner les rêves project at the Centre infantile Raymond Lerch, Marion Dutoit and Théophile Trossat are this time taking over two departments of the University Hospital Bois-Guillaume. Patients on these departments are hospitalised for periods ranging from two weeks to several months. Their days, punctuated by medical appointments and meals, are long, especially in winter. So it’s a place that might seem conducive to daydreaming and escapism.

During the first three days of the workshops, the two artists transformed the patients’ bedrooms into a dark room, using blackout fabric to project the outside landscape inside the room. The process lasted around fifteen minutes, and was used as a time for dialogue to gather the patients’ dreams.

Once the dream narratives had been collected, Marion Dutoit set up a room around a sewing machine, spools of thread and beads to embroider the motifs revealed at the start of the week onto the nursing staff’s blouses and hospital sheets, including Scandinavian elks, West Bank landscapes, a hare man and old cars. The embroidery, a collective activity, is once again an opportunity to spend time with the patients and to continue exchanging ideas with them.

In December, Théophile Trossat collected the embroidered blouses and sheets to dress the carers and take a series of portraits with them.

Results : A newspaper, in the style of the first part of the project, and an exhibition of the fabrics and photos taken during the two parts of the project. The exhibition will also be on show at PORTE 10, the Charles Nicolle University Hospital’s cultural space, from 23 February to 24 May 2024.

Culture, health and medico-social”scheme run by the Normandy Regional Department of Cultural Affairs and theNormandy Regional Health Agency

In partnership with CHU de Rouen

With the support of Métropole Rouen Normandie

With the sponsorship of Ataub architecte