Faces - 6th Art Brut Biennial

Catalogue of the exhibition Visages - 6th Biennale de l'Art Brut, presented at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland (8 December 2023 - 28 April 2024).

We know the power contained in the meeting of glances and its founding dimension of the humanity of the little man through the reflection offered to him by the people who take care of him.

But the face can also be considered from the point of view of its contrasting reality as the visible surface of the invisible parts of the human being: in this sense, it both reveals and conceals feelings and affects, thoughts and preoccupations...

In this way, the theme of faces deserves to be explored in its anthropological scope.
In the field of Art Brut and its productions marked by a form of creative necessity, this exploration takes on a singular dimension: the presentation of works whose figurative content proposes an encounter with this inalienable part of humanity, whatever the marginality of the social or cultural registrations of their authors, appears in a way to be inescapable.

These faces, whose attentive, questioning, communicative, absent or empty, withdrawn or searching tone bears witness to a way of relating to the world, question, in a form of mise en abyme, our own encounter with the human.