Mehdi Cibille

Mehdi Cibille (born 1976) is a self-taught artist who signs his work under the name Le Module de Zeer. He has worked as a graphic designer since 1997. His first paintings were made on waste ground and in disused factories in the Hauts-de-Seine, whose industrial remains left their mark on his drawing.

In the early 2000s, Mehdi Cibille settled on the form that underpins all his work. ZeeR stands for "Zone expérimentale d'expression relative" (experimental zone of relative expression). The artist repeats this module, stretches it or condenses it, always outlined in black. He paints it on the walls of Paris as well as on canvas, and also cuts it out of wooden panels.

At the invitation of the French Ministry of Culture, Mehdi Cibille reinterpreted Buren's columns on the Place du Palais-Royal, and installed his "Sept Piliers" in the courtyard of the Château Comtal in Carcassonne in 2019 and 2020. Agnès b. showed his work in Tokyo in 2021 with "Persévérance". In Paris, the gallery Le Feuvre & Roze devoted "Matière noire" to him in 2023, while the gallery Barthelemy Bouscayrol showed "Silice" in Biarritz the same year. In December 2024, he gave a performance at Fluctuart, the floating art centre moored at the Pont des Invalides.