Protocoles – Alegría Gobeil

𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴 sheds light on the mechanisms of control that govern access to the history of psychiatry, as experienced by those who were its subjects, and the lasting imprint of these histories on bodies that remain psychiatrized to this day. By playing with the implicit rules of the exhibition space, Gobeil inserts their own signs in resonance with institutional signage, while subverting them through concealed shifts. Gobeil creates a space where each object is part of a protocol, enacted and then formalized within the gallery. Escaping anamnesis—the narrative of self and family in a medical context—a gesture is constrained by the space, hiding and revealing itself within it. By invoking both absence and repetition, the archive and fiction, the exhibition raises crucial questions about institutional transparency and the fragmentation of collective narratives. It embodies a reflection on the construction of social memory for psychiatrized individuals, through its current impossibility.