“Seeing the invisible”, the new exhibition at the Musée international de la Réforme (MIR), in Geneva, which opens on January 30, offers the public a journey into the kingdom of spirits and the afterlife through 14 works of outsider art from the four corners of the world.
These self-taught creators, solitary and marginal, express existential and metaphysical questions in a wide variety of forms. Their paintings, drawings, sculptures or embroideries are “productions which open onto otherness and the invisible”, notes the MIR on its website.
Each of the creations presented saw the light of day in a cell in an asylum, a cramped room, a cellar, an attic, a secluded place, “out of time”, conducive to imagination and utopia. The works are the result of “a vision or an epiphany in relation to the deceased or occult forces”.
The authors of these works do not “consider themselves as artists, but messengers linked to the deceased or divinities, in communion with nature and the cosmos”. According to the MIR, the creations on display “encourage introspection and existential questions”.
Dress for the afterlife
The Ghanaian Oko Ataa thus designed a giant rooster which is in reality a sarcophagus prepared for a real deceased. The public will also be able to discover the dress created by Frenchwoman Jeanne Laporte-Fromage. The garment was sewn and embroidered after the death of her husband. She wears it to reunite with her beloved in the afterlife.
-The exhibition also shows two “prophetic” diagrams by Henry Dunant. The founder of the Red Cross was inspired by the biblical Books of Daniel and the Apocalypse. The American John B. Murray, for his part, reveals his faith through “drawings interweaving voluble writings and totemic figures”.
The exhibition “Seeing the Invisible”, which opens on January 30, will end on June 1, 2025.
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