This article problematizes the limits of artistic interventions in the community service environments. Proving the relevance of description, a theoretical tool borrowed to a certain approach of art History, it aims to demonstrate the importance of anchoring our discourses concerning the art works produced in such environments within the materiality of their form. Taking the description of the art piece Le temps d’une soupe (ATSA) as a starting point, this article provides a critical reflection upon the contemporary context (both practical and theoretical) of community art work production. It ends with the opening of a new praxeological avenue to orient our practical interventions, based on a better knowledge of the forms of realities these interventions aim to respond to, that is, the avenue of a formal exploration.