Avril
Hélard

Projects

Avril Hélard – I Tell A Fly

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Avril Hélard – I Tell A Fly

by Avril Hélard

I Tell A Fly is an installation in which the idea of the enigma structures the relationships between the works, evoking a latent space where meaning is constantly produced but never fully resolved. Different forms of modular structures connected to scenography, writing, memory, and repetition function as strategies through which a narrative emerges, unfolding through the visitor's movement within the exhibition space.

SLAP !

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SLAP !

with Geoffrey Cottenceau, Gina Proenza

Whether it’s a parade, a particle accelerator or a dance ball, SLAP invites you to inhabit a space from a gravitational perspective. Positioned on the boundary between two and three dimensions, the works are subject to centrifugal laws and find themselves exchanging with one another to create fortuitous narratives, as if the continuous round of which they were a part of had suddenly come to a halt. The exhibition space becomes the site of a fundamentally social event - in terms of the works it hosts and the exhibition context - and reveals the social perspective that the works hold in rela- tion to each other. Like a boring chat with a friend of a friend, some pieces are overwhelmed by their conversations, while others lend themselves easily to them. You’ll have no hesitation in intercepting some of the phrases exchanged between the works, while having the opportunity to: reply/nego- tiate/argue with the social time-space that SLAP, as a real static meeting point, offers for an evening.