Outsider Art Museum

At a very young age, Marilena Pelosi began to make drawings in which exuberant Catholicism and feverish Macumba, from her native Brazil, swirled to the point of delirium. The reminiscence of trance, eucharistic processions and carnivals are inextricably combined with much more intimate evocations. Established in France for several decades, she continues these same troubling drawings, made with ballpoint pens, in which doll-women are both executioners and victims. Now part of the CNAP collection, in 2019 she will join BIC (France), and in 2021 the Musée d’art moderne (Pompidou, France) and was recently included in the collections of LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, Art Contemporain, and Art Brut in 2025 (France).

A former mechanic who became a late-blooming draftsman, Davood Koochaki fills his compositions with enigmatic and hybrid figures, bearing witness to a haunted past and a boundless imagination. His drawings, marked by a cross-hatching technique, oscillate between revelation and mystery, unveiling a raw, visceral, and deeply inhabited body of work. In 2021, this artist with a troubling yet captivating universe saw his work enter the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou), cementing a journey as singular as it is moving.