"Let's walk in the woods"
(en el bosque Juguemos)
The sky above the roof,
So blue, so calm!
A tree, above the roof,
Waves its crown. [...] Paul Verlaine
After the exhibition of León Ferrari and an initial exchange with the association Yo no fled in 2009, Travesías host in 2010 the Argentine poet María Medrano. Founder of Yo no fled, she led several years of poetry workshops at the Prison for Women Ezeiza, a suburb of Buenos Aires (see p. 5). His workshops raise questions on both the language and poetic form as the identity and prison time. For, indeed, people in prison suffer a process of depersonalization that reaches the same language:
"In prison, you forget the words that name things. [...] When we returned to prison, it ceases to be a person for a package (package), as they are called guardians. Women participating in the workshop are in a process of resistance. They resist being stigmatized. In this, the workshop is an island, an area they define as el cacho de libertad (the song of freedom). In this sense poetry, like any art form, is freedom. "Maria Medrano
Urging the social and political dimension of art," Let's walk in the woods "is intended to link the public of women in prison with different territories (Ezeiza, Nantes, Rennes, Thorigné-Fouillard ), thus initiating a reflection on art, psychoanalysis and social work. But he also comes to work around the theme of the tree because it conveys the symbols: the oak of justice, which houses the timber or warmer, the rebirth each season immortality. Indeed, the tree is immortal, because it always rises from each seed that scatters. On bark brown, etched hearts pierced with arrows. It says "I love you." The tree is touching the clouds, birds motherhood. Child, you dream to climb to the summit, we are building huts, trees protect the land, they are the source of life, oxygen. Each has a tree in her imagination. The position of the tree is the foundation of Tai Chi and Chi Kong, China. The family tree shows, in its ramifications, the development of a community ...
At a first meeting in Argentina (May-June last), Chantal Bideau was invited by Yo no fled to facilitate a workshop drawing and poetry in prison. Travesías has started a first stage of this project and collected a first set of texts to be published by Vox, publisher of Argentina.
The project continues in France, for the establishment of two workshops: a workshop and a poetry workshop drawing and silkscreen printing, and then by invitation in residence at the Poetry House of María Medrano so that it participates in workshops with women in prison in Rennes and Nantes.
Poetry as a project of resistance
Poetry Poetry
as lucid criticism as an act of rebellion
Poetry as a test of transparency
Poetry as redemption historical memory as
Poetry Poetry
collection effort, which has an ethical
poetry that reveals the intelligence to express the world
More than a voice on the world is a form of being in him.
Laura Ross
Participant of the workshop. Text from the second collection "Yo no fled," Buenos Aires, 2005.
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