The expression “art brut” (outsider art) was invented by the French painter Jean Dubuffet to describe the creations of a collection of artists who had no prior education or artistic background. In response to the research and work undertaken in the 1920s by numerous doctors on the creations made by psychiatric patients, the French artist crystallises the figure of the isolated creator and celebrates a deconstructed and savage art. It is in keeping with this “non-standard” and “outside the box” production that the French artist Laurent Dorchin,…