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This is the I Exhibition of drawing and painting of Health Area III, called "Instants of Emotion", promoted by the Murcian Health Service, Area III, the Mental Health Center and the councils of Health and Culture of the City Council. Lorca
The Councilor for Health in the City of Lorca, María del Carmen Ruiz, along with the Clinical Psychologist of the Center for Mental Health, Josefa Illán, and the author of the poster of the exhibition, Mónica Pérez, reported that the Cultural Center Mayor José María From February 18, Campoy will host the 1st Collective Exhibition of Drawing and Painting of Area III of Health, prepared by the users of the mental health centers of Lorca and Águilas, and called "Instants of Emotion".
The inauguration will take place next Monday, November 18 at 12 noon, and can be seen until next February 28.
Ruiz Jódar explained that the sample includes works from the Child-Youth, Adults, Rehabilitation, Drug Addiction and Community Assertive Units.
The social recognition of all the works will reinforce the protagonism of this group and contribute to its integration, normalization and inclusion in conditions of equality, while helping to repair the stigmatizing social imaginary that this group has suffered, and which constitutes an obstacle to its full integration.
It is about becoming aware and dignifying their work in equality with other creative collectives, since they are works as emotionally charged as other creations.
This is shown by the pictures that reflect the feeling of motherhood, or the great importance of childhood and adolescence.
All this allows us to understand their situation in a more human and warm way.
The Edil de Sanidad explained that the Mental Health Network and Addiction Treatment are made up of different types of public devices that offer specialized care to people suffering from mental health or drug addiction problems.
These public devices constituted by multidisciplinary professionals (psychiatry, clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, occupational therapy, clinical assistant and administrative staff) are responsible for carrying out the Children and Youth, Adults, Rehabilitation, Program Treatment of Addictions, Community Assertive Program and Euroemployment Program.
We must remember that in 1999, the Rehabilitation Program was launched in the Mental Health Center of Lorca, highlighting among its activities the Therapy Workshops with artistic mediation.
The creation in leather, looms, modeling, magazine, drawing, painting, etc.
In these Art-Therapy Workshops, the social and integrating function of Art is valued.
It is a space of experimentation, an experiment without fear of not knowing, it is not necessary to be a talented artist here, since the objective of this type of therapy is the improvement of the well-being of people, in a climate of relationships of trust in those who feel welcomed.
Drawing and painting as a means of "nonverbal communication" can serve as a bridge to the word, to communication with others, to reflection, help to integrate feelings, to the construction of narratives where complex experiential contents and conflicts are expressed. psychics
It is the singularity of its internal reality, its personal and own modality of
Subjectivize your life circumstances what is put into play.
Different researchers and artists have addressed precisely this question.
For example, Sigmund Freud compared plastic creation with the imaginary production produced by dreams.
"There is a path from fantasy to reality, and it is art", and he affirmed that "in his subject, the artist always took the lead, and that the psychologist did not have to do where the artist cleared his path".
The artist interprets, sublimates the object.
James Ensor (painter) said he "painted the words of his pain" and added that "Van Gogh's painting was almost a cry of anguish."
"It is the freedom of the object", is to improvise, to speak what comes to mind, what comes to the heart or what goes through my belly ... "Hans Richter
(Painter and filmmaker).
This type of Art made by the users of Mental Health Devices was called by Jean Dubbufet (1945) Raw Art, "Marginal Art" (Roger Cardinal.1972).
A self-taught art, without contact with a refined technique or adjusted to the cultural academicism, an art that was recognized and valued by the avant-garde of the twentieth century and that today host the best museums in the world.
This collective exhibition is an inclusive cultural activity by circulating socially the set of works that are visible in the exhibition, and their authors, each with their own name, making themselves responsible for their artistic creation, puts an original art in the foreground.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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