Hélène Planquelle was featured in the issue #4 of Women United Magazine, a magazine born out of the need to support and unite women artists globally.  In her interview, she talks about her artistic journey and vision.

Où l'on parle de la force académique d'un jeune talent autodidacte, de liens sacrés et pourtant douloureux, de corps morcelés, du désir et de la souffrance qui sont comme les deux côtés d'une pièce, et s'alimentent inextinguiblement.

Nude, purple, red, and pink tones - remnants of the palette - contribute to the exaltation of these communing bodies and reinforce their visual impact. Hélène Planquelle invites us to approach the distinct reality of the body space for metamorphoses, caught between creative and destructive impulses.

My work conveys my own way of seeing the world, and it’s also my way of bonding with people. It’s like I’m bringing people closer. When I manage to put what I have inside on the outside and people react to it, it’s like we reach common ground, we truly connect. The topics that I’m trying to tackle are somewhat uneasy and painful. My work is an attempt to sublimate complex and sometimes painful experiences you can do nothing about.

The truth is not an attribute of art, it is its alma mater, and these works also rely on the surrender of Hélène’s models to her camera lens, as they embody, without limits or barriers, as only friends do, the artist’s dreams. Her truth.

Hélène Planquelle é uma jovem artista francesa autodidata que desenvolve a sua pesquisa estética em torno da questão da relação com o Outro. O outro é o inferno, o irmão, ou o amante. É aquele que é apreendido pela primeira vez pela face, sempre estranho, lembra-nos Emmanuel Levinas, um filósofo que a artista admira. 

Jeune artiste autodidacte française, Hélène Planquelle développe sa recherche esthétique autour de la question du rapport à l’Autre. L’autre, c’est l’enfer, le frère, ou l’amant. C’est celui que l’on perçoit d’abord par le visage, toujours étranger, rappelle Emmanuel Lévinas, philosophe que l’artiste affectionne. 

Un grand merci à Hélène Planquelle pour ces quelques images de son œuvre « In sorrow shalt though bring forth children », actuellement exposée dans le cadre de l’exposition « Gender Benders »

Hélène Planquelle reveals her creative process for In the Confines of Fears – series, exhibited during the “Salon international d’art contemporain - Art Shopping”. During this exhibition in Paris, her works resonate with those of the sculptor Éric Vanel.

Shot on October 23, 2021 at the Carrousel du Louvre (Paris)

Planquelle colabora con tres obras en esta exposición, dos de las cuales presentará por primera vez al público. Se trata de una pequeña serie titulada "Leurs yeux fermés à l'éternel éther", en honor a un verso del poeta francés Paul Valery.

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.

La artista alimenta su obra buscando deliberadamente la ambigüedad, la incertidumbre y el simbolismo. Según Planquelle, su trabajo consiste en "despertar emociones genuinas en los espectadores, que a menudo son el comienzo de conversaciones sinceras sobre temas existenciales".

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.

TV Bologna interviewed Hélène Planquelle regarding her inspirations and the work she presented at the Bologna Paratissima Art Fair, around the theme of "NEEDS", taking place on January 24-25-26, 2020.

“Artists have to ask themselves: Does my art matter in respect of my death? Does it change something? Does it speak to somebody? Does it make a difference?.” Questions like these are the guiding precepts by which Hélène Planquelle works. Heavily influenced by her humanities studies, Hélène’s practice centres upon philosophical principles concerning subjects like social interaction and responsibility for the other.