[RÉPARER] In hospitals in Lyon, on the initiative of the association L’invitation à la beauté, patients can choose a work of art that will brighten up their room. And soften their suffering. A therapeutic experience that highlights the restorative virtues of art.
In winter 2019, in the internal medicine department of the Groupement hospitalier Sud, in Lyon, Agnes Piessat’s window hardly opened: we could barely open it. Her respiratory capacity having fallen to 19%, she had just been hospitalized in this “city within the city” that constitute the Hospices Civils de Lyon, the second CHU in France. At the age of 58, late cystic fibrosis (incurable lung disease) was diagnosed. Although under oxygen from morning to night, Agnès Piessat, alone in her room whose window did not open, lacked air, terribly.
And now a nurse had come to pick her up to come and see, hung on the walls of the corridor, some forty original works of art – paintings, drawings, photographs… – loaned for one year by institutions or artists from Lyon. Like in a museum. Except that we were in the hospital, in the neon light, in the middle of white coats and patients in pajamas. Like each of them, she was offered to choose one, if she wanted. Agnès fell in love with a painting by street artist Big Ben, a sower of poetry and rebellion all over the streets of Lyon. And the painting had been put in her room, facing her bed. “It was as if a window opened in the darkness of my illness. “
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