**From September 18, 2025 to January 10, 2026, the exhibition Cavalcades et épluchures (Cavalcades and Peelings) at the ReX in Armentières invites you to discover how artists associated with Art Brut reinvent their everyday lives and transform the ordinary into extraordinary escapes.**
The exhibition will feature two artists who created their work at the Armentières hospital: Henri Chauwin and Jules Leclercq. In his astonishing drawings and writings, created between the 1930s and 1960s and recently discovered, Henri Chauwin recounts his life and describes a parade that took place during the Armentières carnival: the cavalcade. Jules Leclercq?s embroideries, made from recycled threads, refer to the history of the town and its spinning mills.
Works of art brut, such as the drawings of Georgine Hu, Gaston Dufour and Johnson Weree, and the puppets of Ni Tanjung, will complete the exhibition and reveal the poetics of these artists? everyday lives, rooted in childhood. The exhibition will offer a veritable feast for the senses, transfiguration and deformation, featuring works by artistic personalities such as Jean Dubuffet, Gaston Chaissac and Philippe Dereux, known for his works based on plants and peelings.
With works by Gaston Chaissac, Henri Chauwin, Louis Decq, Philippe Dereux, Jean Dubuffet, Gaston Dufour, Madge Gill, Ted Gordon, Georgine Hu, Aimable Jayet, Frank Jones, Jules Leclercq, Michel Nedjar, Claire Teller, Ni Tanjung, Johnson Weree, Theo Wiesen, Scottie Wilson and Adolf Wölfli
**About the exhibition**
Colloquium: Droit au brut
Médiathèque L?Albatros, Armentières
This multidisciplinary colloquium will explore the ethical and legal issues surrounding the reception of art brut in museums. Since the arrival of the first works at LaM in 1997, research has made it possible to trace the identity of the creators, recognizing their status as artists. The colloquium will look in greater depth at questions of transmission, belonging and the rights of authors and beneficiaries.
Festival: Nouvelles pratiques brutes et musiques en marge
Maison Folie Moulins, Lille
LaM joins forces with La Belle Brute and Lille?s multi-disciplinary cultural venues to offer a week of encounters around new raw practices: concerts, workshops, conferences, round-table discussions, an exhibition, radio studio and Masterclass. These events will activate and share the little-known creative potential of atypical personalities and groups, particularly in the field of disability.
**Practical information**
Dates: 18.09.25 - 10.01.26
Opening hours : Tuesday - Saturday. 1st Sunday of the month. 10 am - 6 pm
Price: Free of charge
Location : Rex, Armentières. The balcony
**Commissariat**
Christophe Boulanger
Curator in charge of Art Brut
Savine Faupin
Chief curator in charge of art brut
The exhibition will feature two artists who created their work at the Armentières hospital: Henri Chauwin and Jules Leclercq. In his astonishing drawings and writings, created between the 1930s and 1960s and recently discovered, Henri Chauwin recounts his life and describes a parade that took place during the Armentières carnival: the cavalcade. Jules Leclercq?s embroideries, made from recycled threads, refer to the history of the town and its spinning mills.
Works of art brut, such as the drawings of Georgine Hu, Gaston Dufour and Johnson Weree, and the puppets of Ni Tanjung, will complete the exhibition and reveal the poetics of these artists? everyday lives, rooted in childhood. The exhibition will offer a veritable feast for the senses, transfiguration and deformation, featuring works by artistic personalities such as Jean Dubuffet, Gaston Chaissac and Philippe Dereux, known for his works based on plants and peelings.
With works by Gaston Chaissac, Henri Chauwin, Louis Decq, Philippe Dereux, Jean Dubuffet, Gaston Dufour, Madge Gill, Ted Gordon, Georgine Hu, Aimable Jayet, Frank Jones, Jules Leclercq, Michel Nedjar, Claire Teller, Ni Tanjung, Johnson Weree, Theo Wiesen, Scottie Wilson and Adolf Wölfli
**About the exhibition**
Colloquium: Droit au brut
Médiathèque L?Albatros, Armentières
This multidisciplinary colloquium will explore the ethical and legal issues surrounding the reception of art brut in museums. Since the arrival of the first works at LaM in 1997, research has made it possible to trace the identity of the creators, recognizing their status as artists. The colloquium will look in greater depth at questions of transmission, belonging and the rights of authors and beneficiaries.
Festival: Nouvelles pratiques brutes et musiques en marge
Maison Folie Moulins, Lille
LaM joins forces with La Belle Brute and Lille?s multi-disciplinary cultural venues to offer a week of encounters around new raw practices: concerts, workshops, conferences, round-table discussions, an exhibition, radio studio and Masterclass. These events will activate and share the little-known creative potential of atypical personalities and groups, particularly in the field of disability.
**Practical information**
Dates: 18.09.25 - 10.01.26
Opening hours : Tuesday - Saturday. 1st Sunday of the month. 10 am - 6 pm
Price: Free of charge
Location : Rex, Armentières. The balcony
**Commissariat**
Christophe Boulanger
Curator in charge of Art Brut
Savine Faupin
Chief curator in charge of art brut
