Subversive, radical, naive or completely alienated... The Treger Saint Silvestre Collection, a jewel of raw and singular art, takes us towards the magic of a cross-world that is both unknown and familiar, an unexplored territory where good taste has no longer its place. At the head of this deliciously chaotic exhibition, the Halle Saint Pierre which wishes to put an end to the dictatorship of appearances with the composite work of unclassifiable self-taught artists, magicians of raw material who do not hesitate to collecting used objects to push the boundaries of contemporary art and thus repair the world. Celebrating the marriage of art and madness, this exhibition invites us to follow our intuition and draw our own path between the Dada photomontages of image surgeon Jorge Alberto Cadi and the giant miniatures of Dexter Nyamainasche.

Did you know?

André Breton was not always the poet and theoretician of surrealism that we know. Jean Dubuffet's best enemy was ready to study medicine when the First World War broke out. The writer was assigned at his request as a psychiatric nurse in the Vosges and very quickly became passionate about the art of the sick. Théodore Fraenkel, his high school friend, summed up this decisive experience for the poet: “Breton, in his insane hospital, was moved and terrified to see insane people who were greater poets than him.”