University Hospital Center (CHU) of Rouen

10th Gate is a cultural space open to all in the Rouen University Hospital. With a program of about three exhibitions per year, this space aims to offer singular views of artists in connection with hospital themes. At the interface between the city and the hospital, patients and their families, professionals, students and residents are invited to come and satisfy their curiosity and to immerse themselves in artistic techniques and universes that regularly question our relationship with beings, things and practices. At the junction between the city and the hospital, between inside and outside, the Gate space reminds us that it is a place of passage between two states of body and mind, between two worlds, whether concrete or abstract, between the known and the unknown.

The project was developed jointly by the maternity and the cultural department of Rouen University Hospital in the area of the Women, Mother and Child Pavilion. This cultural initiative responds to the request that was made to improve the space of the maternity with an artistic proposal, in order to give it its own identity and to promote exchanges. This project goes beyond a decorative purpose, being part of a more global approach linked to parenthood and in particular to father-child relations. Fathers want to be more and more present in the maternity process. The maternity hospital of Rouen University Hospital, for its part, offers more spaces where their presence is encouraged (in particular preparation courses, ultrasounds, presence during childbirth).
One of the objectives of the cultural policy of the Rouen University Hospital is to support the overall care of the hospitalized person, but also to bring a prospective dimension to the medical and nursing project. Inspired by the specific context of the hospital by integrating in particular the constraints of the care units, the intervention of an artist bears the foundations of a sensitive and aesthetic experience. The “Fathers” photographic exhibition developed in conjunction with the maternity teams responds to the request to invest the maternity consultation space with an artistic proposal. The residency of photographer Grégoire Korganow in the maternity hospital aims to offer, in images, an original look at fathers in spaces that have long kept them away. The residency was keen to question the intimate and essential relationship that is forged in the immediacy of the birth of a child.