Joel Dewarrat

Jod whose real is name Joël Dewarrat was born on August 08, 1972 in Châtel-St-Denis in Switzerland. He currently lives and works in Bulle, Switzerland.
It was in 1997, during his training at the School of Applied Arts in Vevey in Switzerland that Jod began an approach on the potential for questioning of the artistic act. These first pictorial works, mounted in installations were described at "The Art Forum" in Montreux (CH) in 1997 and 1998.
This exploration leads him to Fantastic Art, where there is an opening on the myth and the symbol. Between 1999 and 2004, he produced paintings in the collectives of the International Center for Fantastic Art at Château de Gruyères (CH), where his works were noticed and exhibited at "Arte Europa Regio 2000" (IT) and "Iimmagina 2001" (IT) as well as at "Art Expo New York 2002" (USA).
From 2005 to 2011, in order to deepen this notion of questioning, Jod turned to performative art. He creates the collective "Born to Be" which produces hybrid performances marrying the sound and the video with the narration of the drawing. This project will be performed, among other festivals, as part of the "Artsens Agency Event" in Geneva (CH).

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