Figure Against Form

📖 The Scoop

Monster or marvel, totem or fetish, icon or idol, every doll created by French artist Michel Nedjar is a memento mori, a lamentation. These dolls both wound and protect. They indicate those terrors, inexorable and insidious, that exist not only in the world, but also within ourselves. Each doll he creates emerges from a triple context: the accumulated doll collection in his atelier, the history of Art Brut with which he is affiliated, and the agglomeration of his own ?poupées?, created in many styles over a period of decades. As author Allen S. Weiss writes in his expansive analysis, ?The question remains, ?What is a doll?? And more specifically, ?Are Nedjar?s creations even dolls???

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