Art
Fragmented
2016- 2022
Terra Incognita
(Disambiguation and Wanderlust)2018 - 2021
Carré Blanc
2018
Polaroïd Inks
2018
Here, Somewhere, totally else
2018
La Disparition
2018 - 2020
Walls are not Walls
Singapore - Bangkok2019
Our Forest
2019
Silent Transformation
2017
3 Black Boxes
2017
Psyche
2017 - 2020
Missing Part
2017
Broken Shreds of Us
2016
The Book of (our) Erosion(s)
2016
Returning
2016
Geology of Memory
2016
Autographic Matters
2016
Writing
2015 - 2016
Internal Landscapes
2015 - 2020
Beyond the Surface
2015 - 2017
Small is Beautiful
2015 - 2016
Intimacy
2015
Naked Memories
2014
Fragmented
2016-2022
Terra Incognita
(Disambiguation & Wanderlust) 2017 - 2021
Carré Blanc
2018
Polaroïd Inks
2018
Here, Somewhere, totally else
2018
in collaboration with Instax Fujifilm
La disparition
Art & Science Project in collaboration with the Mechanobiology Institute of Singapore / CNRS 2018 - 2020
Walls are not Walls - Part 1, 2 & 3
2019 Singapore - Bangkok
Psyche
2017 - 2020
Missing Part
2017
Broken Shreds of Us
2016
Collaboration with Butoh Dancer Syv Bruzeau
in response to Shinro Ohtake's exhibition at STPI
Music by Ikram Mahmud
The Book of (our) Erosion(s)
2016
Returning
in collaboration with Pang
2016
Geology of Memory
2016-2019
Autographic Matters
2016
Writing
2015 - 2016
Internal Landscapes
2015 - 2020
Beyond the Surface
2015 - 2017
Small is Beautiful !
2015 - 2016Souvenirs Series+Memory processes Series
Books
Dernière adresse
Last Address
Novel, 96 pages, Arléa Publishing
Collection 1er Mille, 2009
How do you exit life when you have loved it so much ? This is a story about a facetious old Irish lady who is forced to leave her home and her past life behind. Abandoning all reason she is nevertheless obliged to take a step towards her final address in the midst of watchful eyes and anxious family members. Here commences an honest and ironic face to face with solitude, past memories and physical dependency while in the background looms her hunger for freedom and a life that she refuses to give up....
"De ma naissance irlandaise, j’ai gardé le goût des grands espaces, des landes dévastées, des ciels lavés par la mer, des nuages gris au goût de sel.
J’ai atteint un âge presque canonique, beaucoup trop avancé pour que la décence m’interdise d’en faire part, bien qu’au fond cela me soit complètement égal."
www.arlea.fr
Le secret de Xinmei
Xinmei's Secret
Children book, 35 pages
Couleurs de Chine Publishing, 2014
Xinmei is a young Miao girl. Every night, she has the same dream... this secret dream which she shares with her younger brother Shun and an encounter with the village witch, Lao Li, takes the children on an adventure filled with poetry and a quest for justice. At the end of their journey Shun and Xinmei will discover that a mother's love is stronger than anything else and will never die.
"Je m'appelle Xinmei, j'ai dix ans. Le village où je vis se trouve perché au sommet des grandes montagnes Miao. Quand le ciel devient gris et que le brouillard descend, j'ai parfois l'impression que je pourrais toucher les nuages."
This book had been translated in Mandarin
www.couleursdechine.org
Singapore Artitude
Collective Book directed by Stéphanie Lehembre
2018, 200 pages
A different Singapore, through the lens of more than 50 photographers and a dozen writers.
A collective book by nature. Multiple perspectives, diverse sensibilities and a common talent to see ART in the daily life, orchestrated to rediscover the city. SINGAPORE unplugged!www..artitude.me
Hélène Le Chatelier
Hélène Le Chatelier studied Art in Paris at l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art, Olivier de Serres, where she graduated in Fine Art Fresco painting with honours. Since her first exhibition in Paris right after her graduation, Hélène embraced various modes of expression (painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, writing). She also holds a Master's dregree in Aesthetic philosophy with distinction (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France).
Best known for her ink bodyscapes and her works with paper engaging writing and abstract landscapes, Hélène studies the influence of memory and social context on our intimate space. Her polymorphic practice explores the influence of displacement on the way we construct / deconstruct our identity, forced that we are to engage and to re-negotiate continuously with our individual and collective memory. It also questions our interconnected link with nature and the reciprocal influence between humans and their environment.
In this age of migration and globalization overwhelmed by a constant flow of data, where human relationships are caught between our irreconcilable needs for both security and freedom, Le Chatelier's work exposes the volatility, the fragility and the liquid aspect (elusive, leaking, escaping, unstable) of human bonds even with oneself as well as with nature. She questions the paradox between the incongruity of language and the need to label and define the untold, the unsaid, the not represented here or the not represented yet. She talks about transition, movement, transformation, highlighting the representation of our indeterminate and transitional state as a constant of our human condition.
Her work entered the MaGMA collection (Singapore), the NPE collection (Singapore), the Thaillywood / Taittinger Foundation collection (Thailand), the Bernard Magrez collection (France) as well as numerous private collections across Europe and Asia.
Her public art installation has been selected for the 2019 edition of SEA Focus (Singapore), and again for the 2024 edition 'Serial and Massively Parallel', curated by John Tung.
She has been nominated for Asian Sovereign Art Prize 2024 and won the 1st prize for the Pulse Award for Photography 2023 (Bangkok) .
Her work was selected 3 times (2021, 2023, 2025) for the Hearth Programme by Art Outreach, a patronage platform for contemporary art in Singapore, and she recently started La Disparition, an Art and Science project conducted in collaboration with the Mechano-Biology Institute of Singapore / CNRS to question the concept of disappearance.
She had been invited to participate in galleries nights 2020 in Bangkok where she performed her happening‘Take this and eat it, this is my body”.Hélène has been invited to be an artist-in-residence at NPE Print Residency, Singapore (April to June 2017) and at Thaillywood Contemporary Art Residency, Thailand (September 2015 to March 2016).
Her solo exhibitions include Intimate Topographies (2021), curated by Tan Siuli, Alliance Francaise, Singapore; Geology of Memory (2021), Art Outreach, Gillman Barracks, Singapore; Unspoken Truths (2019), Ronewa Art Projects, Thaïland; Beyond the Surface (2017), Intersections, Singapore; Naked Memories, Intimacy (2015), White Space, Bangkok, Thailand; Naked memories (2014), Intersections, Singapore.
Her recent group exhibitions include What doesn't kill you, curated by Dr. Michelle Lim, Exhibition at La Grande Maison Bernard Magrez (2023), curated by Mabille & Chaumette, Bordeaux, France; Bus.Stop.Art (2021), a public art programme curated by Amelia Abdullahsani and Merryn Trevethan for Singapore Art Week 2021; Here, Somewhere, totally else... (2018-19) in collaboration with FUJIFILM, Singapore; Fiction of Precision (2017), curated by Euginia Tan from Singapore National Gallery, an exhibition organized by Art Galleries Association of Singapore; Flash of Memory, Memory Lapse (2017), La Lanta Fine Art, Bangkok, Thailand; Archives of the Discarded (2016), 5th Singapore International Photography Festival; The Broken Shreds of us (2016), STPI, Singapore; Into internal Landscapes, Dreamscapes, Form Space Atelier, Seattle and White Box, New York, USA (...)
Hélène has spent a great deal of time in France and in Ireland. She currently lives and works in Singapore. Her work has been showcased in Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, London, Paris, Brussels, Bordeaux, Seattle and New-York.
