“In actuality, the 5 senses could be diminished to 1, the sense of contact. The tongue and palate odor meals; the ear, sound waves; the nostril, emanations; the eyes, rays of sunshine.” That’s the reason in all textbooks the sense of contact is at all times talked about first. It means to comprehend, to understand, by the physique, the hand or the fingers.”
— Nameless, 1953

Hélène Fauquet introduces a brand new physique of labor composed of her personal assortment of seashell souvenirs glued on high of framed pictures, shut up pictures of varied fluids, blobs and bubbles the likes of which have been the central topic of her earlier exhibitions. Glamorously framed, the ensuing objects exert the scintillating enchantment of opaline alcoves. The sounds of distant waves echo throughout the pearlescent inside of every shell, espousing the circumvolutions of its ideas like in a surrealist dream.

at Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
till October 19, 2024