Je n'ai pas lu Foucault - Chefs d'œuvre en prison

When art reveals the hidden humanity behind bars !

Actress Céline Caussimon enters prison to conduct writing workshops.
Her idea : to have inmates write about masterpieces of painting, looking together at paintings by Van Gogh, Basquiat, de la Tour and others. She doesn’t know why they are there, nor how they will react.
She is in prison! A place of violence, cultural deprivation, administrative rules…
Their gazes, their words, move her deeply : she must share these moments of life with the world.
In this solo performance, Céline embodies all the roles: inmates, prison guards, cultural coordinators. With them, she reenacts the unexpected, touching, and often funny exchanges between these characters. It is a fresh look at artworks (we all think we know) and at society’s outcasts (whom we know little or nothing about).
"- Let's take a walk through a painting…
- No, ma’am! When I get out of here, that word ‘walk’—I’m throwing it in the trash."