L’hôpital, un espace d’enfermement (ré/trans) formateur dans Hôpital: récit en noir et blanc de Ahmed Bouanani

The asylum for the insane, a place of confinement rather than healing, appears to be devoid of its primary therapeutic function. It invites more to condense by multiplying them to infinity, the forms and the modalities of the withdrawal into oneself. The madman lives there on his own, drawing resources sometimes from his imagination, sometimes from the physical or symbolic reality of his faltering environment, if not from the Other and his confused discourse of reasons for survival. Such rides offer him the possibility of finding a breach in the thick and opaque wall of the asylum space to escape suffocation and regain lucidity and a little bit of human dignity. Ahmed Bouanani takes us on a dizzying journey to this Dantean world in his work Hospital: a black and white story to explore a sick mind and a feverish body.