Michel Nedjar

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The term “Art Brut” is now too restrictive to define Nedjar's oeuvre, which has long been a feature of museums worldwide. Nonetheless, it was through Art Brut that everything began for him. In 1969, after seeing a reproduction of a drawing by Aloïse Corbaz in an encyclopaedia of painting, he decided - with no formal training - to follow his own artistic path.

For a long time, it was mainly the dolls from his “Chairdâmes” (“Flesh of the soul”) series that featured at the Collection de l'Art Brut, but this latest exhibition reveals the richness and diversity of a career spanning almost fifty years.

The exhibition also features a much lesser-known facet of his work, in the form of a presentation of experimental films he has directed. This type of cinema has played a key role in his life and work.

The presentation is supplemented by Mario Del Curto's photographs of the artist in his work cum living space, together with the documentary “Les chantiers interdits de Michel Nedjar” (“Michel Nedjar's forbidden worksites”), directed by Isabelle Filleul de Brohy.

Curator: Anic Zanzi, curator at the Collection de l’Art Brut.