The L’Oustal high school is hosting an exhibition entitled “What talent!” until June 21. This exhibition is an educational, social and cultural innovation project that contributes to the promotion and attractiveness of the home help professions.
Capucine de Decker is the organizer of the Pôle Culture et Santé Nouvelle Aquitaine, a structure at the initiative of this exhibition. Capucine came to explain to the home help professionals, but also to the students of L’Oustal mainly enrolled in the health and social sectors, the genesis of this exhibition, but also the way of perceiving it. “Social life assistant, home help… These professions which embody bond, sharing and trust rub shoulders with all aspects of life. With commitment, they try to repair, ensure the well-being and allow greater autonomy of the people accompanied. They offer the possibility for everyone to exercise their dignity, regardless of their situation. Essential to social cohesion, they nevertheless suffer from a profound lack of recognition,” she explains.
An artistic approach in the company of 5 artists
“Without claiming to fully resolve this question, our approach has attempted to add a stone to the building by offering home care professionals experimental training through artistic practice workshops based on the five senses, accompanied by five artists: Camille Téqui, Céline Zeimetz, Marc Closier, Valérie Lacamoire and Geneviève Rando. A detour through art to take a step back, offer them spaces for healing and work with them to revalorize their practices: create a perfume which makes them feel good, compose the soundtrack of a work situation, produce a photographic portrait of their profession, question their relationship to touch in relation to others, and finally, write to better express their profession” .
It is these different collected materials that nourish the exhibition “What Talent!”. Conceived as a sensitive journey inside a house, both a place of intimacy and a place of work, this exhibition offers a unique space that shows this invisible but precious work that is the accompaniment of daily life. . She tells us about these supports intended to accompany the expression of life’s desires, beyond vulnerabilities. According to its contours, everyone is invited to take a fresh look at these professions and discover new facets.
“What Talent! is a highlight of these trades which constitute the base of a united society and of the people who, by exercising them, participate in what makes us human beings by nourishing this essential aspect which is the relationship to the other”.