Manger et être mangé : retour sur un projet mené en détention

Throughout the year 2025, librarians from the Petite Bibliothèque Ronde de Clamart and the Heure Joyeuse heritage collection visited weekly a group of detained men and women at the Centre pénitentiaire sur Francilien, in Réau. Accompanied by the SPIP 77 (service d'insertion et de probation de Seine et Marne), they raised awareness among the group of children's literature, introduced them to it, and invited them to become curators of an original exhibition, drawing the works from the collections of the Heure Joyeuse heritage collection. Over the course of the sessions and meetings with various cultural practitioners (children's publisher, literary critic, heritage curator, lighting designer, graphic designer, public writer, artists,…) the detained curators gradually chose a theme, the pieces to be exhibited, the colours of the walls, built a discourse and a route, a spatial layout, and a visitor guide booklet that they wrote.