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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
The village of Salmaritin


This installation is the final act of the project of “Salmaritin” made during three months at “La S Grand Atelier”, an Art Brut Contemporary center located in the Belgian Ardennes. We collectively created a fictive village where every artist would have a specific role, a place where to live and work, and I would be the village fool, since I had to adapt to the rules and norms of the atelier to meet the people there.
Once all was set and everybody had drawn their own house, we built out of cardboard a maquette of Salmaritin and made it a whole playground to create anything around it.

On the back right of the maquette, there’s a mountain atop of which is a fictive version of a psychiatric hospital close to the atelier, standing there to remind the village of the institution it lives in. From its point of view, every house in the village turns its back from it.

160 x 160 x 90 cm


Some of the houses of Salmaritin, made by the artists for themselves.

Courtesy La "S" Grand Atelier