WE ARE CONVINCED THAT ART IS
A TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE AND ACTS AS
A FORCE FOR CHANGE.
THAT IS WHY WE FIGHT TO MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE TO ALL, INCLUDING THE MOST VULNERABLE AUDIENCES.
Art is a transformative experience when one is guided through it. This refers to art’s ability to awaken, move, heal, or help a person or a group evolve.
This experience develops creativity, abstraction, problem-solving, and critical thinking. It makes it possible to explore new perspectives and develop a unique aesthetic sensibility.
Art becomes a tool for personal and collective transformation, opening doors to new ways of seeing and understanding the world around us.
This experience is particularly transformative for vulnerable communities. Cultural mediation plays an essential role in building connections between artworks and audiences.
It helps overcome the fear of the unknown, feel genuine emotions, and express oneself freely in front of works of art.
Our partnership with businesses helps combat precarity while creating lasting and meaningful social ties within our communities.
OUR METHODOLOGY:
BRINGING BUSINESSES AND ADVOCACY ORGANISATIONS TOGETHER TO COMBAT PRECARITY.
Our workshops are designed with a dual objective: to meet specific needs identified by advocacy organisations while involving partner businesses to support their social engagement strategy.
IDENTIFICATION
→Of a need for the benefit of a vulnerable audience.
CREATION
→Of a solidarity-based artistic workshop that meets this need.
INTEGRATION
→Of the business as a stakeholder, through production and/or collaboration in creating the artwork.
DISSEMINATION
And/or cultural mediation of the collective artwork for vulnerable audiences.
WE HAVE DEVELOPED A CULTURAL MEDIATION APPROACH THAT ENABLES AUDIENCES TO FEEL, IDENTIFY, AND EXPRESS THEIR EXPERIENCE.
Cultural mediation gives meaning and makes artworks accessible. It helps educate the eye and build bridges between art and the public.
The objectives of mediation are as follows:
- To build connections between the public and the artwork, as well as between different personal and cultural worlds.
- To develop self-confidence, curiosity, critical thinking, and overcome the fear of not knowing.
- To practise a Socratic maieutic method that enables verbal exchange in front of artworks, in order to build an analysis based on personal references.
WITH CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS, WE HAVE CARRIED OUT PROJECTS IN PRISONS, HOSPITALS, AND COMMUNITY CENTRES.
TODAY, ENGAGING BUSINESSES IN THIS AREA IS ESSENTIAL.
“What is good about you is that you do not treat us like homeless people.”
Philippe, a resident at the SamuSocial de Paris, said this to us during a workshop at the Grand Palais in 2013. This sentence marked the beginning of our journey. We created programmes in emergency shelters, then developed a genuine art accessibility policy.
After leaving the Grand Palais, we joined Les Grands Voisins and founded Ce Que Mes Yeux Ont Vu in 2016.
Today, we involve businesses in this approach. More than 30 businesses have collaborated with us since 2016. We received the Antropia Prize in 2021 for the most innovative social enterprise.
Our experience with international cultural institutions and our network of cultural partners enable us to create unique and impactful solidarity workshops.