Déjà-vuism Art

Like my fellow artist Mondrian, I seek to express a sense of universal harmony. When Purity travels through Time, it leaves a little sparkle upon different artists who share a dream. An idea.

Inès.

Déjà-vuism® Art

A contemporary artistic language created by Inès Arab - TheBroithers’s®

Contemporary Art · Conceptual Art · Expressive Abstraction · Textual and Symbolic Art · Neo-Expressionism

 

A free and unique artistic movement

Déjà-vuism® Art is an artistic movement created and named by Inès Arab, founder of TheBroithers’s®.

He combines painting, handwritten words, shapes, signs, symbols, materials, and visual poetry to create compositions that are as much meant to be looked at as they are to be read. A door opens onto Another World... .

Her name evokes that peculiar sensation of “déjà vu”: something that feels familiar to us, even though we don’t always know why. An image, an emotion, a memory, a word, or a symbol can awaken a different perception in each of us. Each work then becomes an invitation to look beyond appearances, to feel, and to interpret freely. There is no single “correct” interpretation. The viewer completes the work with their own story, memories, and sensibilities. 

 

An artistic language with multiple layers of meaning

Déjà-vuism® Art is a contemporary, free, and unique artistic language at the intersection of conceptual art, expressive abstraction, and textual and symbolic art. It reveals echoes of Neo-Expressionism, the Fluxus spirit, naïve art, and certain qualities of art brut, notably spontaneity, an innocent perspective, and freedom of gesture. Straddling primal forms and contemporary expression, simplicity and sophistication, instinct and reflection, and intellectual inquiry, each composition invites a personal interpretation. These parallels do not imply an affiliation with these movements nor an intention to replicate them. Déjà-vuism® Art asserts, above all, its own language: that of words, forms, emotions, and symbols, where the work is as much to be viewed as it is to be read.

 

Connections with Other Artists

One day, when her niece Tanya was nine years old, she pointed to one of Inès’s paintings and said: “Auntie, this is street art, chic, and elegant all at once.” A spontaneous remark, born of a child’s innocent gaze, that sums up in its own way the convergence of freedom of expression, simplicity, and elegance.

Throughout the exhibition, visitors including art lovers and collectors noted certain parallels between the works of TheBroithers’s® and those of other artists. Jean-Michel Basquiat, for his expressive energy, signs, and symbols. Cy Twombly, for writing that becomes pictorial matter. Ben Vautier, for the role of words, ideas, and conceptual art, as well as for his connection to Fluxus. Gaston Chaissac, for spontaneity, characters, freedom of form, and the intersection of writing and painting. Wassily Kandinsky, for the connections between colors, forms, musicality, and sensations. Since Inès Arab is also a synesthete, the relationships between words, colors, sounds, forms, and emotions occupy a natural place in her artistic language. These parallels are resonances, not claimed lineages. They seek neither to establish a hierarchical comparison nor to erase the uniqueness of each artist. Every artist contributes their own unique contribution to art history. TheBroithers’s® aspires to make its own contribution.

These are resonances. Not an identity.

 

I am Nuance

From the earliest traces of human activity to contemporary visual languages, human beings draw, write, invent symbols, and leave marks to express what they feel, what they hope for, what they fear, and what they love. Some works are raw and essential; others are elegant, contemplative, edgy, or full of energy. Innocence can meet sophistication. Instinct can meet construction. Silence can meet language. A simple symbol can convey a profound question. Who are we? What connects us? What remains when we strip away appearances? How can we live in the world with greater peace? Our connection? Existence. Déjà-vuism® Art belongs to the present, yet keeps its eyes open to what came before. Its uniqueness lies in the freedom to create a dialogue between forms, words, sensations, and ideas without seeking to confine them to a single definition.

I am Nuance.

 

The symbol

Symbols play an essential role in Déjà-vuism® Art. Since the earliest civilizations, human beings have entrusted symbols with their fears, beliefs, and desires for protection, happiness, love, or peace. At TheBroithers’s®, symbols become a language capable of transcending words and sometimes even borders. An extremely simple sign can convey a profound idea. A shape can evoke a sensation without us immediately knowing why.

Something seems familiar. A memory? An emotion? An old image?

Déjà vu.The symbol then becomes a bridge between the personal and the universal, the ancient and the contemporary, the child and the adult, the self and the other. It does not necessarily dictate what is to be understood.

He opens it. And the viewer continues.

 

A few pieces of the mosaic

A few pieces of the mosaic. The rest is up to you. Create images that make people stop and look.

Feel. Smile, sometimes. Reflect. And leave, perhaps, with something you didn't have when you arrived. An image. A word. An emotion. A little light.

 

A sweet treat with a cause

Déjà-vuism® Art also explores human relationships, diversity, memory, identity, childhood, and life itself. It seeks to make visible a part of the invisible: our wounds, our strengths, our questions, our emotions, and sometimes a few answers. It is not about denying the world’s difficulties, but about preserving a place for innocence, beauty, hope, and brotherhood. This gentleness is not a lack of strength. It is a choice: to build solid bridges between worlds; to foster dialogue among different sensibilities, histories, and cultures without seeking to make them identical. Every human being has their own nuances. Every gaze tells its own story. Every work of art leaves room for the other. To each their own interpretation. To each their own journey. And behind the forms, colors, words, symbols, and all their nuances lies an essential direction:

 

Peace.

To all the artists who, both yesterday and today, stand up for peace… thank you.

 

Inès Arab - TheBroithers’s®
Visual artist and artist-author
Founder of Déjà-vuism® Art
Beaujolais & Lyon, France