The EPSM Lille-Métropole* has welcomed the artist-photographer Marc Helleboid in an art residence, from January 2013 to June 2014. During this period the artist was involved in the different units of the general psychiatric sector 59G20 care device.

The exhibition which is the result of these meetings, presents a serie of black & white large format portraits with brief stories that deal extensively the issue of mental health.
This exhibition invites us to question many of the stereotypes that too often distort our understanding.
Those who agreed to be photographed deserve our admiration for the public dimension of their testimony as well as their desire to offer a different perspective of the disease.

This is a sensible meeting that Marc Helleboid offers us through the exhibition From Confidence to Public Speaking.

Meanwhile, the CATTP users offer an impressive work that echoes in the photographic work. Here the silhouettes and the keywords confront us with the inner world from those who has to cope with the disease and the view of others.
*Lille Metropole public facility for mental health care