Galerie Max Mayer

Hélène Fauquet

Info: »In reality, the five senses can be reduced to one, the sense of touch. The tongue and palate smell food; the ear, sound waves; the nose, emanations; the eyes, rays of light. That is why in all textbooks the sense of touch is always mentioned first. It means to realize, to perceive, by the body, the hand or the fingers.« – (Anonymous, 1953) Hélène Fauquet introduces a new body of work composed of her own collection of seashell souvenirs glued on top of framed photographs, close up shots of various fluids, blobs and bubbles the likes of which were the central subject of her previous exhibitions. Glamorously framed, the resulting objects exert the scintillating appeal of opaline alcoves. The sounds of distant waves echo across the pearlescent interior of each shell, espousing the circumvolutions of its thoughts like in a surrealist dream.