Projects of creation and thought around mental illness in the museum space

Abstract

ARTErias con locura has been a project of creation and thought that between 2013 and 2020 developed its activity around a group of people affected by mental health problems. The project, which arose as a result of the collaboration between the Community Intervention Center of the Río Hortega Hospital in Valladolid and the education area of ​​the Patio Herreriano Museum of Contemporary Art, launched different creative initiatives throughout this long period. From these, the members based their work on their own creative processes conceived as a therapeutic tool on the path of personal and social recovery. This text proposes a review of some of his most significant practices, from his first proposals around photography as a personal narrative, through audiovisual creation, the elaboration of the fanzine as a collective claim device or, in the last case, the exhibition Generando deseos in the museum.