ikob Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Eupen, Belgium Dirk Dietrich Hennig Jamais-vu Jean Guillaume Ferrée 10.08.2016 - 20.11.2016 Born 1926 in Lorquin, France, at the edge of the Alsace region, as the son of a wealthy French lieutenant and a German mother, Jean Guillaume Ferrée did not need to pursue gainful employment. During a stay with relatives in Heiligenrode near Bremen, Germany, in the mid-1950s, his mother fell ill with a rare form of memory loss, temporary retrograde amnesia, which forced her to be intermittently hospitalised for months at a time. His artistic work can also be understood as a reaction to the neurological disorder in an attempt to assure himself of his surroundings by means of the ‘Manifestations de la mémoire’. His paper collages, assemblages, and spatial installations can be situated somewhere between art brut, Fluxus, and nouveau réalisme. Contemporaries such as Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Höch, and Ed Kienholz, whose works he must have been in Strasbourg and Paris, where he occasionally lived, influenced his work. In his will from 1974, Ferrée stipulated that his work be posthumously kept under lock and key for thirty years. He died under suspicious circumstances several months later; suicide could not be ruled out. Ferrée’s body of work was rediscovered in 2005 and presented in a sensational exhibition in Heiligenrode. The Musée Ferrée in Lorquin has maintained his estate ever since. 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