Vivresse - a contraction of life and intoxication - invites discovery of a state in which vital force and desire would become one. The singular work of Hélène Fauquet illustrates a tension between ornamental forms and a conceptual dimension on the edge of surrealism.
Her recent work explores the themes of ornament and art, of nature and artifice, as well as of history and the present. The shell has gauged the work and is ready to absorb it.
Hélène Fauquet's sculptures explore seashells and the questions their forms raise. The genesis of these sculptures rests on the gesture of obliterating her photographs with a three-dimensional object - the seashell. Framed in a glamorous manner, these objects give off the shimmering allure of opaline niches. The frames go beyond their function as simple display devices to become a threshold toward a sensitive and symbolic space.
Her work is interested in the residues of photography and the movement of images. In her recent exhibition Phenomena at the Kunsthaus Glarus in Switzerland, she develops a phenomenological approach to perception and reflects on the way information is stored.