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Artistic projects - Researches on psychiatric institutions

06.2024Le Fou du village de SalmaritinEditorial design, drawings & narration
06.2024SalmaritinInstallation
06.2024Drawings of SalmaritinIllustration, drawing & painting
12.2023Se perdre dans une petite pièceInstallation
12.2023Conversation Matters - Le village sans fousEditorial design & illustration

Books/illustration

06.2024PartiesIllustration
12.2023Mantique tea infusionsIllustration
06.2023 Le départ de papaBook design, illustration & narration
12.2022Virginia’s HousesBook design, illustration & narration
12.2022AvertissementBook design & illustration
09.2022“Les Belles Lettres” publicationIllustration
06.2022Postal cards to the headIllustration

Branding/design

03.2024
ONHA visual identityArtistic direction
10.2023OVISION open micVisuals & posters
06.2023Roscosmic propagandaBranding, posters & illustration
12.2022Marni Theater identityVisual identity
07.2022Radio Esperanzah! 2022Visuals & posters

Paintings

12.2024
Mardi - Sortie de l’usineMixed media on canvas, 150 x 110cm
12.2024
Untitled (installation)Mixed media on acrylic sheet, metal frame, 165 x 62,5 cm
11.2024Lundi, rythmeMixed media on canvas, 120 x 90cm
10.2024Ryhtmanalyse - Largage de bombesAcrylic and pastel on canvas, 100 x 100cm
06.2024Désir désœuvréMixed media on paper, 100 x 64cm
01.2024
La grève du fouMixed media on canvas, 100 x 50cm
10.2023L’oiseau hésiteMixed media on paper, 100 x 64cm
08.2023Pistis cirusMixed media on paper, 100 x 64cm
06.2023
SpeziMixed media on paper, 84 x 59,4cm
03.2023Les larves seront mouchesAcrylic on canvas, 50 x 70cm
09.2022Startrip in Kreuzberg roomAcrylic on canvas, 60 x 40cm

Drawings

2024Sketchbook 114,8 x 21cm
2023Sketchbook 210 x 15cm
06.2023FaithbankGraphite on paper, 42 x 29,7cm
2023Sketchbook 321 x 29,7cm

© William Denis
Le Fou du village de Salmaritin


Salmaritin is a fictive village born from the meeting of “La S Grand Atelier”, an Art Brut contemporary center, and myself, where the notion of deviance is constantly questioned within a psychiatric background. In this imaginary space, every artist of “La S” gave themselve a specific role while I incarnated the fool confronting the village’s norms and rules. Through a human, organic and artistic dialogue, I created relationships with the inhabitants of this strange village.

In this book, I tell the story of how I encountered the artists of the atelier in a lineary way during three months, event by event, slowly becoming closer and friends in the end. Through the artworks made together, the crazy anecdotes that happened everyday in this place and interviews with specialists of Art Brut and the psychiatric institution about the importance of the village fool, this work is a celebration of deviance and madness.

300 pages, 24x32cm

Courtesy La "S" Grand Atelier