Hélène Delprat: En Finir avec l'extension du pire

Gallery Christophe Gaillard is pleased to announce the next exhibition of Hélène Delprat, from March 15th to April 21st, 2012. En finir avec l’extension du pire (Curated by Dominique Païni) which is ispired by the movie Les (fausses) conférences, recently presented at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris.

«If Eric Rohmer had not used it as a title for one of his films, I should gladly have entitled this tour of Hélène Delprat’s book «La Collectionneuse». For a collector is what she is: she picks, picks up, collects, keeps a collection of images. Although a far cry from the poet of the modern city or the peripatetic philosopher, she does herborize. She does not bend over towards the tarmac to pick up the leftovers of city activity in order to construct a new Merzbau or even just collages. Hélène Delprat the ‘collectionneuse’ is more of a diarist in images, a sister of the Limbourg brothers, her undertaking being a contemporary volume of «riches heures» of her life. […]