L'héritage d'Asklépios. Soigner par le geste en Grèce archaique et classique. Camille Semenzato so unusual today

so unusual today

In her tableau vivant "Ship of Fools" from 2023

Catalogue de l'exposition septembre 2023 - mars 2024 à Institut du Monde arabe

the only initiated spectator of these mysterious images - grandiose or terrifying - which mark the underground space

researchers

L'héritage d'Asklépios. Soigner par le geste en Grèce archaique et classique. Camille Semenzato so unusual todayIn 2020, the Covid 19 pandemic revealed the ambivalent power of medical gestures, perceived sometimes as life saving, sometimes as intrusive, even violent. This paradox, far from being unprecedented, invites us to return to the sources of Western medicine: how did the Greeks of the archaic and classical periods practice and represent these gestures? To answer these questions, Hlne Castelli's study focuses on manual actions aimed at healing, whether