Self-Knowing and Empowerment

Artistic experience: 3 collage workshops with 10 inmates.
Each workshop was followed by the main psychologist of the establishment – which enriched and facilitated communication with the parties involved.
This art experience help them to develop self-awareness, boost self-esteem and worked as social interaction tool for all the participants.
Year: 2022

Prison Establishment of Linhó

The Prison Establishment of Linhó is situated in Alcabideche, Cascais, Portugal.
The prison population is aged between 21 and 30 years and male gender.

Prison Establishment of Linhó

The Prison Establishment of Linhó is situated in Alcabideche, Cascais, Portugal.
The prison population is aged between 21 and 30 years and male gender.

There was an intended purpose:
to understand the therapeutic reaction, the focus on the moment – concentration and the self-power that the collage technique could have within the prison community.
It was a win for everyone involved, and a seed to a more structured, continuous and ambivalent new project.