L'Atelier d'Expression artistique de l'Arantèle* offers a privileged meeting place between man, art and care. Open to the city, it supports the cultural enrichment of patients by discovering various artistic practices, visiting museums, exhibitions, etc.
The Loire, the inspiration of many authors, was the common thread. This vast subject allowed a freedom in expression but it was necessary, for some to tame it because linked to more or less happy memories of hospitalization.
The book "Impressions… Regards sur Loire" allows to discover the approach and the work of 3 years for twenty users. Indeed, beyond "what can be seen and exposed", the journey of each person with the moments of research and doubt inherent in creation, with what has been said and told .... It is all these trial and error, sketches, fragments and constructions that have contributed to the emergence of this work offered today to your gaze.
*Day hospital: a cross-sectoral structure with artistic and cultural mediation of the Maine Pole depends on CESAME, Centre de Santé Mentale Angevin.