Lockdowns

Historians, philosophers, psychoanalysts and visual artists present in the first part of this book different experiences of confinement. The authors analyze prison systems, surveillance societies, psychological disarray, works closed in on themselves and “enclosing” works as warnings against all forms of confinement. These situations resonate strangely since the common test of sanitary isolation called "confinement" that we have experienced. Indeed, in March 2020, while we were writing the introduction to This work, the government, to face the Covid-19 pandemic, imposed a restriction of movement to the bare minimum, which contradicted the principles of basic freedom and reduced our home to a place of claustration. This is why, for the second part of the book, we have addressed to artists in order to examine the effect of confinement on the creation. Published following the exhibition Enferments at the Paul Éluard Museum of Art and History of Saint-Denis and at the eponymous conference organized by the ACTE Institute, School of arts of the Sorbonne, University Paris 1, in 2019.