Fracture and Scar

Following an accident in 2015, Olivier Lounissi transformed his pain and horror facing the wound. The artist pondered on his condition as a human being in the face of suffering and at the same time in his new condition as an immobilized and closeted man. The artist, inspired by the sophisticated and colorful rendering of his wound's medical imagery implements, in three acts, a work protocol aimed at saving him during the healing period and its aftermath.
With the series "

Dessins en quête de guérison

" (Drawings in search of cure), Olivier Lounissi conducts an autobiographical introspection, a firmly resolved to fight his immobility and to obtain, through art creation, his "great deliverance", the one mentioned by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) in

Thus spoke Zarathoustra

(1983). However, be wary, suffering cannot be brought to others. Pain is intimate, it can be exalted but always in full possession of our means, because without the capacity to choose there can be no act of creation."

Fracture and Scar

Following an accident in 2015, Olivier Lounissi transformed his pain and horror facing the wound. The artist pondered on his condition as a human being in the face of suffering and at the same time in his new condition as an immobilized and closeted man. The artist, inspired by the sophisticated and colorful rendering of his wound's medical imagery implements, in three acts, a work protocol aimed at saving him during the healing period and its aftermath.
With the series "

Dessins en quête de guérison

" (Drawings in search of cure), Olivier Lounissi conducts an autobiographical introspection, a firmly resolved to fight his immobility and to obtain, through art creation, his "great deliverance", the one mentioned by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) in

Thus spoke Zarathoustra

(1983). However, be wary, suffering cannot be brought to others. Pain is intimate, it can be exalted but always in full possession of our means, because without the capacity to choose there can be no act of creation."