Le Service des Panacées

Le Service des Panacées (Panacea Service) brings literature and medicine together through a multidisciplinary approach. It invites patients to state a “disorder”, which it responds to during a consultation by prescribing books of literature, along with their dosage.
These participatory performances feed into the creation of a medical dictionary of literature, the writing of fiction, and research into questions of bibliotherapy, the impact of reading, and the physicality of books. In parallel, Laure Limongi creates plastic forms (Scarificatures, Dagalibri shown at Frac), videos (such as Auscultations de livres also shown), sound pieces… At Frac Sud, Laure Limongi continues her research at the heart of the Centre de documentation recherche, working in particular on the corpus of ephemeral libraries. As a result, her bibliography of prescriptions has been expanded to include books of literature from past exhibitions. These will be offered to Frac Sud users, who will be able to sign up for a performance consultation. During this residency, Laure Limongi is also pursuing her writing and production of plastic pieces.