Illustration & Design
Art practice
Drawings
© William Denis
Illustration & Design
Art practice
Drawings
© William Denis
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