Qu’est-ce-qui se trame ici ?

The result of a workshop organized at Centre André Baillon[1], this evolving window created for AAC17 reforms the association’s space by assembling a series of evocative “trace” elements:

Paint-splattered panels from the studio recall the successive artworks that were produced there[2]. Additionally, sofas from a communal lounge evoke the concept of an open and collaborative approach to psychotherapy. Sound recordings recount episodes from this environment, serving as archives of interconnected personal stories. These narratives are also translated graphically into large-scale drawings, revealing a constellation of places and people, a network and a territory. The arrows, deliberately left undefined, symbolize the relationships between individuals. They are the threads of the story, weaving the fabric of its unfolding. This system highlights the impulses and flows that initiate events. The density and complexity of the outline lends them a certain illegibility. The intimate is here revealed less through form than through concept. Meaning arises from the collective nature of the artwork, unified by a shared graphic language. The “Sociogenogram[3]” is used here for its expressive artistic potential: as a sketch captured on the fly, it paradoxically conveys the complexity of the situations experienced by service users and members of the psychosocial support network. The window literally reflects a kind of disorder. More importantly, it conveys the multiplicity of forces at play. It will be periodically activated by the collective during shared sessions.

[1] André Baillon Club’s CRF is a non-profit organization based in Liège, active in the field of mental health: https://www.clubandrebaillon.be/crf/

[2] Some of its works are part of an evolving collection, named CAB Collection/Archives: https://www.clubandrebaillon.be/crf/galerie/

[3] The “Sociogenogram” was developed as a tool to support Network Therapeutic Work, as part of the “Clinique de Concertation” and Contextual Therapy, by neuropsychiatrist, family therapist and Consultation Clinician Dr. Jean-Marie Lemaire.

Visual caption: © France Paquay, photograph, Hahnemühle paper print, 33 x 33 cm, 2011