La Galerie Christian Berst presents La Matiere Noire et Les Disparus by Jorge Alberto Cadi until January 10, 2026.
The exhibition’s curator, Sébastien Lifshitz, describes it as follows:
Scarified faces, dismantled bodies, scars and crosses everywhere: Cadi’s horrific world is populated by mutant beings. Like a sorcerer’s apprentice, every individual he photographs has undergone a hand made metamorphosis, revealing what was hidden. For Cadi, reality lies, and images are only the reflections of that lie. Excluded, bullied, often mocked, he grew up in Havana in a violent and cruel family environment. Since childhood, he has taken refuge in art, where he gives free rein to his schizophrenia. In his photomontages, which he composes obsessively, he lets his existential rage explode. Each collage is a kind of duel in which he settles scores with everyone.
For this third monographic exhibition devoted to the Cuban artist Jorge Alberto Cadi – the only photographic artist to be part of the Bruno Decharme donation to the Pompidou – the gallery has entrusted the curatorship to filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz, a collector of vernacular photography. His sensitive eye seeks to decode representations of society in order to expose its intrinsic violence, hidden evil and unspoken desires. He sees everything like a hallucinated medium. Under his gaze, photographs become sensitive plates on which the secrets of humankind, the hypocrisy of human relationships and society’s confinement within conventions he abhors are revealed. Cadi’s photomontages embody the dialogue he desperately tries to establish with the outside world, a world filled with ghosts, fear and burning desires.
Galerie Christian Berst
3/5/6 passage des Gravilliers
75003 Paris
http://www.christianberst.com
