A black cat around the corner explores mental health and its relationship with art.
For the project, I first attended a rehearsal of De Splittergale - the Mad Ones, in English- a group of mentally ill and vulnerable performers. There I met Mathilde, who joined the group thirty years ago. From that moment on, a collaboration began, and different ways of representing her bipolar disorder were sought.
All portraits and pictures were discussed and some of the portraits were created with Mathilde. The peak of the collaboration is perhaps the printed picture of her living room on which she wrote for hours, until exhaustion, all the thoughts that ran through her mind - symbolizing her ambivalent feelings towards art as a mean of expression that has often saved her, but in which she sometimes loses herself too, especially during maniac episodes.
