Couloi'Art - artistic works made in prison by death row inmates
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Espace St-Martin, rue St-Martin 18, 1003 Lausanne
Thursday, March 30th : 18h30 - 22h00, Preview Friday, March 31st : 17h00 - 21h00 Sunday, April 2nd : 14h00 - 18h00 Thursday, April 6th : 17h00 – 21h00 Friday, April 7th : 17h00 – 21h00 Saturday, April 8th : 14h00 – 18h00 Sunday, April 9th : 14h00 – 18h00 Wednesday, April 12th : 17h00 – 21h00, Finissage |
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After having put in music and staging texts from inmates, the association Inmates´ Voices, for its fifth project, exhibits artistic works made in prison by death row inmates. The exhibition will take place at the Espace St-Martin in Lausanne. A catalog including all the art pieces will be published.
In solitary confinement, not allowed to work and cut off from the rest of the world, some prisoners use this loneliness to express themselves through art. With modest means, they get what they need to draw, paint, paste or glue and use objects from their every day life to create artistic trails reflecting their inside world.
These works have been made for themselves during epistolary exchanges set up by the association lifespark. The artists, sentenced to death, are confronted with existential questions, which they sometimes transpose in very surprisingly slight topics. Beyond an artistic performance, these works are first of all the answer to the urgent need of the inmates to express themselves and are undeniably used as a release.
In solitary confinement, not allowed to work and cut off from the rest of the world, some prisoners use this loneliness to express themselves through art. With modest means, they get what they need to draw, paint, paste or glue and use objects from their every day life to create artistic trails reflecting their inside world.
These works have been made for themselves during epistolary exchanges set up by the association lifespark. The artists, sentenced to death, are confronted with existential questions, which they sometimes transpose in very surprisingly slight topics. Beyond an artistic performance, these works are first of all the answer to the urgent need of the inmates to express themselves and are undeniably used as a release.
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