Today (3rd), the new third phase of the "No. 600" gallery was officially unveiled to the public on the first floor of Building 6 of the Shanghai Mental Health Center. The participating artists are artists with schizophrenia who are hospitalized here.
The new third phase of the exhibition of "No. 600" Gallery was launched (Photo by Lin Fuyu, reporter of the Central Broadcasting Network)
"Come on, you guys are great, looking forward to the next creation." "'Gallery 600' is worth the trip, the paintings are very healing, and we should often check them out in the future." "Here, I feel very warm, may the gallery be a bridge to people's hearts." The first batch of visitors wrote their feelings on the message wall of the interactive area.
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness, and the prevalence in the population is roughly around 1%. "We don't need to put any other mark on this type of disease, especially negative marks." Xie Bin, secretary of the party committee of the Shanghai Mental Health Center, said that the works exhibited in the "No. 600" gallery this time come from three long-term hospitalized schizophrenic artists in the Minhang branch of the Shanghai Mental Health Center. "The paintings presented today are meant to let the whole society see the 'other side' of schizophrenia. Painters, musicians, writers, and even scientists can emerge among them. ”
This time, the curatorial team innovatively adopts the interactive art exhibition method to allow artists to communicate with the audience, so that the exhibition becomes a "microphone" and promotes a two-way spiritual exchange between the patient artist and the public. The white wall around each painting is an experience area, and the audience can paint on the spot according to their own viewing experience, and have linkage and "dialogue" with the works of the patient artists.
Since the first issue, each work of "Gallery 600" has been a "self-portrait" in a sense, a manifestation of the dialogue between man and self. At every exhibition, we are not only admirers, but also participants and actors in promoting the decontamination of mental health. Here you can talk about everything about mental health. Mental illness needs to be understood by more people, tolerated and accepted by society, which is the direction of the development of medical humanities and the important significance of the exhibition.
The curatorial team innovates the use of interactive art exhibitions to allow artists to communicate with the audience (Photo by Lin Fuyu, a reporter of the Central Broadcasting Network)
The "No. 600 Wanping South Road" where the Shanghai Mental Health Center is located has increasingly become an "Internet celebrity". Owning a piece of "No. 600 Mooncake", drinking a cup of "No. 600 Coffee", visiting the "No. 600 Gallery", things with "No. 600" elements are loved by the public like bamboo... All these show that the awareness, acceptance and tolerance of mental illness in all walks of life have increased significantly.
Yu Jun, a second-level researcher at the Press and Publicity Department of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said after visiting the painting that "Gallery 600" is breaking through the limitations of language and form, just like a "spiritual through train", driving into people's hearts and transmitting more concepts of mental health. Nowadays, "No. 600 Wanping South Road" is becoming synonymous with mental health and is being paid more and more attention. This is not only the result of the hospital's spiritual civilization construction, but also the embodiment of the warm social culture of Shanghai.
"Popularizing mental health knowledge and improving mental health literacy is one of the most direct, fundamental and effective measures to improve the mental health level of the whole people." Shao Guohua, director of the Science Popularization Center of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, said, "I look forward to the continuous innovation, spread of the flame and continue to spread the science popularization of the '600', and build a 'rainbow bridge' that communicates people's hearts." ”