Twisted and contorted aircraft frames, molded and annealed car bodies, rows of entangled barbed wire interspersed with double cutting blades and sharp spikes, boats carrying illegal immigrants are the images that the artist Adel Abdessemed has drawn on since the early 2000s. These images appropriate the forces of violence and destruction. The artist deploys different media (installations, performances, drawings, sculptures, videos) to reflect global conflicts in his works. His work tells a profane and composite mythological storyline with an infinite number of equivalents that reflect the endless emergency of order and harmony from chaos. Driven by a feeling of historical concern and urgency, the work of Adel Abdessemed fits into the tradition of occidental realism along the lines laid down by Masaccio, Grünewald, Goya or Géricault, at times bringing back to life the fantastical or grotesque figures of the mediaeval illuminations. His work is a series of fusions, movements, fragmentations, star-shaped patterns and disparate themes that interlace and form an ornamental lattice. It is inspired by the power of dreams which carry his images in an endlessly moving process of transformation.