In Luce (On Light)

The project is centered on young adolescents suffering from eating disorders (EDs) in the care of the Children’s Neuropsychiatric department of the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin by focusing on the visual arts as a promoter of well-being and an effective instrument integrated in the programmes for the prevention and treatment of these disorders.

In Luce offers an occasion via art to connect with one’s emotions, identifying and developing greater knowledge of oneself and one’s body. Expressive work of this kind, which reestablishes the primacy of one’s body and expression, has been shown to be extremely useful. The project is composed of a weekly art-therapy laboratory and an intensive theater workshop where body movement and graphic drawing meet, most especially when everybody’s movement is tied together to that of the group as a whole. During the workshop, a video is made to cement and document the course, something that is usually difficult to achieve for art therapy workshops.

Integrating art and words with the dimension of motor senses enables participants to overcome the mind-body dichotomy and, at the same time, carries out a social therapy role by having each participant rediscover the individual creative potential of their experience free from judgment. In fact, creativity allows one’s personal resources, there but not yet explored, to come to light.