Paris Photo
For its second participation at Paris Photo, christian berst art brut presents - booth A25 - a solo show of Cuban artist Jorge Alberto Cadi, exhibited for the first time in 2019 by the gallery and honored this year in the exhibition Photo I Brut #2 at the Botanique in Brussels.
A Boltanskian in his memorial use of photography, a Warholian when he sews grafts of images together, El Buzo seeks above all to reveal what these images conceal of melancholy, fatum, memento mori. Since 2021, his work is part of the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art (Pompidou).
In the streets of Havana, everyone knows Jorge Alberto Cadi as « El Buzo » - the diver - because he’s constantly searching material for his works in the city’s abandoned objects. Boltanskian by his memorial use of photography, Warholian by his taste for stitching images together, Cadi always seeks to reveal what these photographs are hiding. Exhibited for the very first time in 2019 by the gallery, then in 2022 at Paris Photo, he was presented the same year in the 2nd part of Photo brut which, after the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, was hosted at the Centrale and the Botanique, in Brussels. His work is included in the collections of the Musée national d’Art moderne (Pompidou). In 2023, he was exhibited by Sophie Calle at the Musée Picasso.
