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HENRIETTE ZEPHIR

1920-2012

Artworks Biography Video   Exhibitions Bibliography Literature

The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree, Camden Art Centre (London) 2020/21

The Medium’s Medium, The Gallery of Everything (London) 2019

In Abstracto, Galerie Christian Berst (Paris) 2017

Henriette Zéphir, Collection de l’Art Brut (Lausanne) 2017

PreTENse, Galerie Christian Berst (Paris) 2015

MEDIUMISTIC ARTIST WHO, CONSIDERING HERSELF AN INSTRUMENT OF FORCES OF THE NETHERWORLD, DEVOTED HER LIFE TO THE FULFILLMENT OF THE EXPRESSIVE DEMANDS OF HER SPIRIT GUIDE. WORKING IN TRANCE-LIKE SESSIONS, ZEPHIR WOULD FOLLOW THE GUIDE’S COMMANDS BY COMPULSIVELY FILLING PAGES WITH LINES OR BY SCRUPULOUSLY TRANSCRIBING DICTATED MESSAGES FROM ANOTHER PLANET. IDENTIFIED BY JEAN DUBUFFET, THIS CLAIRVOYANT’S MEANDERING CREATIONS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY EXHIBITED IN 1967.