A giant coffin in the shape of a rooster, an embroidered dress to join a deceased person in the afterlife, purple and carmine stains to dialogue with spirits, a tormented evocation of the Book of Revelation by the founder of the Red Cross... these are just some of the hundred or so works presented from January 30 to June 1, 2025 in this temporary exhibition at the International Museum of the Reformation.
Curated by Lucienne Peiry, they explore death and the afterlife. From China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy, New Guinea, Poland, Switzerland and the USA, creators translate existential and metaphysical questions into a wide variety of forms.
Solitary, they find little place in the community and see their raison d'être only in the expression of their works, produced as autodidacts and against the current. Their paintings, drawings, sculptures and embroideries are, par excellence, productions that open onto fundamental otherness, onto the invisible.