Participatory fresco funded by patronage focused on the theme of grimace located in the entrance hall of the hospital of Annonay. The fresco is composed of two faces, that of a health professional and that of a resident, in order to cohabit the two portraits in one.
“Stop making faces, it’s rude”
For this project with the Hospital Center of Ardèche Nord, Mr S wanted to build a work around the grimace, put a little humor and color in the hospital landscape.
We often prevent children from making faces… and yet, not only our sense of humor should allow us to laugh, but also to make it our turn. Baby or child, our grimaces, as varied as they are multiple, are all messages addressed to the other. Each with its own mimics: a wink, a crooked mouth or fingers in the nose.
Later, when the verbal is well in place in the child, the grimace takes on a new meaning. It’s used to play baby, clown, make fun or provoke It could replace a bad word. The grimace is a mask that allows us to be another. The adult no longer makes faces, he has become serious and he has a little forgotten that he also had the right to deform his face to make laugh his relatives, his friends.
To reinforce the humorous side of the fresco these portraits are grimed, drawing, with a line of child… like the strokes of pen bic that were put on the portrait of Johnny on the cover of Gala or Voici. Let us remember that we are still big children.
