Target audience: Hospitalised children aged 6 to 14

Locations: Branches of the Rouvray Hospital Centre, Seine-Maritime.

Duration: September 2025 to April 2026

Following an initial phase at the Raymond Lerch Children’s Centre (2022) and a second phase in the palliative care and follow-up care and rehabilitation units in the respiratory department at Bois-Guillaume Hospital (2024), visual artist Marion Dutoit and photographer Théophile Trossat have taken up residence at four branches of the Rouvray Hospital Centre. Over several months, they ran a series of workshops with children from the day hospitals in Bois-Guillaume, Buchy, Neufchâtel and Petit-Quevilly. This time, Drawing Dreams focuses on a recurring motif in children’s dreams and drawings: the house.

Marion Dutoit invited them to tear paper, dye fabric and tape together cardboard boxes to build shelter-houses where they could hide, share their secrets and draw on the walls. Théophile Trossat slipped quietly among the groups to film the drawings and games, and perhaps capture a glimpse of what childhood is all about.

An exhibition showcasing the results of this long-term residency, held at the aptly named Maison Papier—the exhibition space of the Rouvray Hospital Centre—runs from 28 February to 26 April 2026. For the occasion, Maison Papier is adorned with drawings, installations and moving images, transforming itself, for the duration of the exhibition, into a house of dreams.

Drawing Dreams is a workshop project led by the Rouvray Hospital Centre and the Rouen Normandy Photography Centre with visual artist Marion Dutoit and photographer Théophile Trossat.

A project funded with the support of the ‘Business, Arts and Mental Health’ patrons’ circle and the sponsorship of Ataub Architects.

Drawing Dreams exhibition at the Maison Papier (Rouvray Hospital)
4, rue Paul Éluard, 76300 Sotteville-lès-Rouen
Free entry, Saturday–Sunday 3pm–6pm, Wednesday 2pm–5pm