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BIO

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Rare are the people who go through life without experiencing the rapture of love and the sorrow of having the person you care most about hurt you in the most unbearable way. Hélène Planquelle has made this beautifully painful experience, private yet so universal, the foundation of her art practice, which comes from a need to confront the torment of our relationship to the Other.
She explores this delicate balance between bliss and misery in our encounters with others from an intimate as well as more universal point of view, tackling recurrent topics like emotional dependence, attachment, social need, vulnerability, acceptance and rejection, power and violence.
Conceptual in nature, her work draws on a wide range of philosophical and scholarly references, from ethics to cognitive sciences, attachment theories and evolutionist psychology. The figures of victim and torturer originally ingrained in our encounter with the other bring her to explore extreme physical activities like sadomasochist practices or combat sports as graphic sources of inspiration.

Imbued with a deliberate dramatic quality, Hélène Planquelle's work ultimately looks to sublimate the raw nature of the experiences she touches on to help us make sense of our most individual sorrows she embeds in a broader story, that of humankind.

Self-taught artist Hélène Planquelle owes her wide range of knowledge and interests to her humanity studies. After pursuing her passion for classical literature and philosophy, she went on to study intercultural communication and opened her mind to always more contemporary topics in the realms of social and natural sciences.
Fierce advocate of figuration, her work draws on man's ancestral need for storytelling. As art is not so much about finding answers than raising questions, Hélène Planquelle's work deliberately looks for ambiguity, uncertainty and multiple meaning.

CV

Solo shows

 

2022 

Monsters of love, Atelier Nanoh (Paris, FR), November

2021 

Atelier Desnouettes (Paris, FR), February

2019

Original Violence, We Art From Paris (Paris,FR), March-April

2018
Galerie Joan Font (Paris, FR), March
 

2017

Zamaken Collective (Paris,FR), November

Place des Cordes (Paris,FR), November

Group shows

2

2023

Fundazione PsicheFuturoInnovazione, inaugural exhibition (Bergamo, IT), May

Venus effect: the otherness of the reflected gaze, Palmieri Foundation (Lecce, IT), February

2022

Lucid Dream, La Caserne de Paris (Paris, FR), April-May

2021

Spotlight showcase, Arch Enemy Arts, (Philadelphia, USA), March 

2020

Destructuralisme FiguratifParc Floral de Vincennes  (Paris, FR), October

 

2019

Grateful Park, Pilotenkueche International Art Program (Leipzig, DE), August

Hungry Dungeon Friends, Kunstkraftwerk (Leipzig, DE), July

Féminin/Masculin, l'art se joue du genre, Lestudio Gallery  (Paris, FR), March-April
La caresse et le meurtre hésitent dans leurs mains, La Condamine (Paris,FR), February, (as a curator and artist)


2018

Rapports, Les Rituelles (Paris,FR), June-September
1480km, Galerie La Lalande (Paris,FR), May
De l’ordre de l’intime, Galerie La Lalande (Paris,FR), March

 

2017

Ropes U, Eurydice Gallery (NY, US), August-September

Art fairs

2023

Solid'Art, Carreau du Temple (Paris, FR), April

The Other Art FairBarker Hangar (Los Angeles, USA), March 

2022

Superfine Art Fair, Magic Box & The Reef (Los Angeles, US), October 

Solid'Art, Carreau du Temple (Paris,FR), Mai

2021

Superfine Art Fair, LA efair, February

Art Shopping, Carousel du Louvre (Paris, FR), October

2020

Paratissima Art Fair, Magazzini Romagnoli (Bologna, IT), January

2019

YIA (Young International Artist Fair), October

Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Seattle Center Exhibition hall  (Seattle, US), April

Residencies

59 Rivoli, (Paris, France), November 2019-February 2020


Pilotenkueche International Art Program, (Leipzig, Germany) July-September 2019

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