Hélène Le Chatelier
'Au bois dormant'
Group exhibition
Curator : Marina Oeschner de Conninck
19 Sept - 10 Oct 2024
Galerie Atelier Nathalie Auzépy
12- 14 Rue des Fabriques
Bruxelles - Belgium
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Art
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
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STILL ON / SOON TO COME...
Au bois dormant
Curated by Marina Oeschner de Conninck
Galerie Atelier Nathalie Auzepy
12 - 14 Rue des Fabriques, Bruxelles, Belgium
19 Sept - 10 Oct 2024
PERMANENT
Walls are not Walls - Urban Art Project - Singapore-Bangkok-Singapore:
- Geology of Memory
A site-specific Street-Art Project
Muscat Street, Singapore
- This is about something that happened a long time ago that continues to affect us today
Outdoor mural at the Alliance Francaise of Bangkok
179 Wireless Rd, Lumphini, Pathum Wan District, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
- If listening is an Act of Love, will you open your window ?
Mural commissioned by Singapore Tourism Board
Between Joo Chiat and Tembeling road, Singapore
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).
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 SEA Focus 2019, a STPI project at Gillman Barracks, Singapore.
She also 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.
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 Exhibition at La Grande Maison Bernard Magrez (2023), Curated by Mabille & Chaumette, Bordeaux, France; Nuages (2022), Curated by Marina Oechsner de Coninck – Spotts Gallery, Singapore; Superpositions (2021), Guest artist for Yukako Matsui's solo exhibition – My little box, Tokyo, Japan; Bus.Stop.Art (2021), Curated by Amelia Abdullahsani and Merryn Trevethan for Singapore Art Week 2o21, Singapore; Here, Somewhere, totally else... (2018-19) in collaboration with FUJIFILM, Singapore; Fiction of Precision (2017), curated by Euginia Tan, 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, Paris, Bordeaux, Seattle and New-York.
Bio
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Intimate Topographies - curated by Tan Siuli - Alliance Française Singapore
2021 Geology of Memory - Hearth Programme, Art Outreach, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2019 Unspoken Truths - Ronewa Art Projects, Alliance Française in Bangkok, Thailand
2019 Walls are not Walls – Street Art curated by Alliance Française in Bangkok, Thailand
2017 Beyond the Surface - Intersections Gallery, Singapore
2015 Naked Memories, Intimacy – White Space Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. Curator : Marie-Pierre Mol
2014 Naked Memories – Société Générale Gallery, Singapore. Curator: Intersections Gallery
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2024
Serial and Massively Parallel – Curated by John Tung– Our Cloud Forest, a site specific installation for SEA FOCUS 2024, a STPI Project for Singapore Art Week 2024 - Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singpore
2023
Missing Part, The Sound of Silence Duo exhibition with Calvin Pang - Hearth Programme, Art Outreach, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Silent Transformation(s) – in association with L'image en creux, a Cultur Foundry Project – Curated by Etienne Hatt – 100ECS, Paris, France Projection + Art & Science conversation with Pr. Virgile Viasnoff from CNRS and Mechanobiology Institute of Singore (NUS)
Water Impression – Curated by Olal'art – The American Club, Singapore
Itinerant Practices – Curated by Peruke Projects – Cromwell Place, Gallery 10, London, UK
Between Source and Cloud, Calligraphy and Asian Identity – Curated by Intersections – EHL, Singapore
Black / White Quotes – Duo show with Zhang Zhao Hui – Olal'Art Gallery, Singapore
You are special – Group exhibition curated by Bettina Schleier in line with the Random coordinates Project – Spotts Gallery / Art Porters, Singapore
Group exhibition – Curated by Mabille & Chaumette – La Grande Maison Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France
Group exhibition – Curated by Mabille & Chaumette – French House, Bordeaux, France
2022
A Thousand words : Photography in conTEXT – Curated by Of Limits Collective – Library@Orchard, Singapore
Nuages – Curated by Marina Oechsner de Coninck – Spotts Gallery, Singapore
Look up – Curated by Intersections – EHL, Singapore
Fossils Dance – Curated by Marina Oechsner de Coninck – Spotts Gallery, Singapore
2021
Fauna Allegoria – Curated by Marina Oechsner de Coninck – Art Agenda, Singapore
Superpositions – Guest artist for Yukako Matsui's solo exhibition – My little box, Tokyo, Japan
Bus.Stop.Art – Curated by Amelia Abdullahsani and Merryn Trevethan for Singapore Art Week 2o21, Singapore
The Call of the SEA – Curated by Marina Oechner de Conninck – Selegie Art Centre, Singapore
2020
Take this and eat it – Happening part of ATTRACTIONS, a Liv_id Collective Project for Bangkok Galleries Night 2020 – Bridge Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
2019
The Rules of engagement - Group show curated by Marryn Trevethan and Amelia Abdhulasani - The Substation, Singapore
Geology of Memory - a site-specific Street-Art Project, Muscat Street, Kampong Glam, Singapore
Noise Giffest - Gillman Barracks, Singapore
SEA Focus - Our Forest, a site specific installation - SEA Focus – a STPI project part of the Singapore Art Week – at Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2018
Here, Somewhere, totally else... – Duo exhibition with JY Deng, in collaboration with FUJIFILM – Intersections Gallery, Singapore
Scents of Asia - With Nicola Anthony, Marc Nair, Eddie Botha, Pang, Tania Nasr, Soe Soe, Claire Deniau – Intersections Gallery, Singapore
2017
Fiction of Precision - Curated by Euginia Tan, event organized by Art Galleries Association Singapore
Writescape – Trio Exhibition with Kwanchai Lichaikul and Uten Mahamid - YenakArt Villa, Bangkok, Thailand
Scents of Singapore – With Nicola Anthony, Marc Nair, Eddie Botha, Kavita Issar Batra, Pang, Ma Dame, Tania Nasr and Jalayla Jalil – Intersections Gallery, Singapore
Folds of Mind – With Deusa Blümke – NPE Art Residency, Singapore
Flash of Memory / Memory Lapse – With Kwanchai Lichaikul and Uten Mahamid – La Lanta Fine Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2016
White Box, non profit Auction – Curated by Lara Pan – 329 Broome St #1, New York, NY, USA
Residency Unlimited Non Profit Auction – Curated by Nathalie Angles – Paddle 8, New York, NY, USA
Broken Shreds of Us – Collaboration for Syv Bruzeau's Butoh Performance in Shinro Ohtake's exhibition Paper - Sight at STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore
Archives of the Discarded – 5th Singapore International Photography Festival – Intersections Gallery, Singapore
Into Internal Landscapes, Dreamscapes... – Duo Exhibition with Uten Mahamid – Form Space Atelier, Seattle, USA
Returning – Collaboration / Installation with Calvin Pang – Intersections Gallery, Singapore. Curators: Daryl Goh and David Chew
Autographic Matter, InkMagination II – Intersections Gallery, Singapore – Curators: Daryl Goh and David Chew Voilah festival organised by the Institut Français and the . . . French Embassy in Singapore – With Calvin Pang, Syv Bruzeau and June Lee Yu Juan
Art Paris 2016 – Grand Palais, Paris, Intersections Gallery
2015
Small is Beautiful ! – Intersections Gallery, Singapore. Curator: Marie-Pierre Mol
InkMagination I – Intersections Gallery, Singapore. Curator : Marie-Pierre Mol – Voilah festival organised by the Institut Français and the French Embassy in Singapore – With . Syv Bruzeau and June Lee Yu Juan
2014
Collaboration / Performance with Syv Bruzeau (Butoh dancer) – Société Générale Gallery, Singapour
2011
Frescoe and Mural – Interdec Asia, Singapore
2004
Maison et Objets: selected items for the exhibition “Spirit of the House” organized by independent trends research companies on “Maison et Objets” fair in Paris (selected . . by both Elizabeth Leriche and Croisements)
1997
Le Corps Mémoire – Group exhibition, Town Hall of 6th Arrondissement, Paris, France
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2023 Nomination for Soverign Art Prize Asia 2024
2021 PULSE Award, 1st Prize for photography - Jury members: Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani, Richard Koh, Lisa Botos, Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch and Dr Natthakhet Yaemin
2017 NPE (National Photo Engravers) Art Residency, Singapore, invited Artist
2015-16 Thaillywood Contemporary Artist Residency – Chon Buri, Thailand – Foundation Marie and Hugues Taittinger – http://www.thaillywood.org/helene-le-chatelier/
COLLECTIONS
2023
Bernard Magrez Collection, France
2017
NPE (National Photo Engravers), Singapore
2016
Thaillywood Collection, Thailand
BBPS Private Limited, Singapore
2015
MaGMA Collection, Singapore
PRESS
2022
Nuages explores the limitless of human mind when creating art - LUXUO, Art Republik : https://www.luxuo.com/culture/art/nuages-explores-the-limitless-nature-of-the-human-mind-when-creating-art.html
2021
Fauna Allegoria : Artist Helène Le Chatelier explores theme of Identity and Nature - LUXUO, Art Republik : https://www.luxuo.com/culture/art/fauna-allegoria-helene-le-chatelier.html
Reconnect with nature at Fauna Allegoria - LUXUO, Art Republik : https://www.luxuo.com/culture/art/reconnect-with-nature-at-fauna-allegoria-exhibition.html
The French community in Singapore - CNA Insider : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRl0kV4zoEY
2020
Art conversations with Studio ID: https://conversations.studio-id.sg/helene-le-chatelier/
Miniseries Working under confinement - Episode 1: https://conversations.studio-id.sg/episode-1-working-under-confinement-by-helene-le-chatelier/
Miniseries Working under confinement - Episode 2: https://conversations.studio-id.sg/episode-2-working-under-confinement-by-helene-le-chatelier/
Le Petit Journal de Singapour, Humeur de confinés, Thursday 28th of May
2019
Lianhe Zao bao SG, Crossroads columns, 11 Mar 19
Cobo Social, Repositioning the Singapore Art Scene: out of the chaos, opportunities arise, 31 Jan 19
2017
Blouin Artinfo, "Folds of Mind" at NPE Art Residency, 7 Jul 17
Artitude, Folds of Mind: an exhibition with a new perspective, 19 June 17
Art Republik #14, Fired up, page 88, March-May 17
SAGG (Singapore Art and Gallery Guide), Hélène Le Chatelier: Beyond the Surface
Le Petit Journal de Singapour, Voyage intérieur au-delà des apparences avec Hélène Le Chatelier, "Beyond the Surface", 6 June 17
Women and Career, Guest Series Singapore with Hélène Le Chatelier, youtube Channel Women and Career, 31 May 17
BAM! Bangkok Art Map, Mar 17
2016
Deck, Journal of Photography #1, Singapore
Intersection, Feature Interview: Autographic Matters, Pang, June Lee Yu Juan & Hélène Le Chatelier, 13 Jul 16
Plateform Online Magazine, Beyond the Surface, Internal Landscape, Jun 16
Business Times, Using words devoid of Meaning, 17 Jun 16
Blouin Art Info, Contemporary Aesthetics meet Chinese Tradition at Intersections, 17 May 16
Artabazos, The Art Fair Magazine, Issue #1 Art Paris
2015
Bangkok Post, Thailand (November)
2014
Vous m'en direz des nouvelles – Cultural Program of Radio France International, 20 October 14
2009
Marianne – France, September 09
Le Masque et la Plume – France Inter Radio, 25 Sept 09
Ouest France – Sept 09
The Irish Times – Interview
Image Interiors – Interview, Sept-Dec 09 (Ireland)
2006
Elle Décoration – May 06 (France)
2005
Résidences Décoration – Issue #65 (France)
Art et Décoration – Nov-Dec 05 (France)
Cosmopolitan – May 05 (France)
Glamour (Vogue Group) – Ap 05 (Germany)
Marie-Claire Idées – Summer 05 (France)
Résidences Décoration – Issue #61 (France)
Madame Figaro – Mar & May 05 (France)
Elle Décoration exceptional issue – Special Trends 05 (France)
2004
Folie Pure – Issue #10 (Russia, France)
Live it – Spring 04 (UK, US, Japan, France)
Marie-Claire Maison – Issue #389
Résidences Décoration – Issue #54 (France)
1998
Le Moniteur des travaux publics et du bâtiment – Issue #4913 (France) : Interview about fresco
WRITING & PUBLISHING
2022 Le Corps contenant-contenu : Origine, territoires géographiques et intimes du geste artistique, Art theory and art philosphy Essay directed by Fréderique Malaval, Maître de conférence HDR à l’Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3, France. Publisher : HAL Open Science : https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-03894435v1/file/BIGNONLECHANTELIER_22_M1.pdf
2016 Autographic Matters, Intersections Gallery
2014 Publishing of Le Secret de Xinmei in Mandarin
2013 Publishing of Le Secret de Xinmei, Children literature, Publisher: Couleurs de Chine – Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China
2009 Publishing of Dernière adresse, novel, Publisher: Arléa, France
LECTURES AND ARTIST TALKS
2022
One Thousand Words : Photography in conTEXT- Panel "Picturing words in creative photography practice" - Moderator: Karren Sadler, with Tom White, Ivan Ong and Hong Shu-Ying
2021
Bus.Stop.Art project - Live talk “Impact of Art in public spaces” sur Facebook Open Arts, Curator: Amelia Abdullahsani
Intimate Topographies - Panel “Embodied Narratives”, Moderator: Tan Siuli, with Yanyun Chen, Praew Kawita, Vatanajyankur Nge Lay and Anca Rujoiu
Intimate Topographies - Panel “Feminine Body, Female Gazes” as part of the "French Festival", Alliance Française de Singapour, Moderator: Sébastien Bonnemason-Richard, with Lilyane Beauquel, Joffrine Donnadieu and Malika Madi,
2018
Here, Somewhere, totally else… – Présentation avec JY Deng – Intersections, Singapour
2017
Experimentation and Crossed fields in Arts, Search and Question the World Lecture for Raffles Design Institute students, Singapore
Meet up and Signature Le Secret de Xinmei, Serangoon Garden, Singapore
2016
Archives of the Discarded, Public talk at Intersections Gallery, Singapore
Archives of the Discarded, for Singapore Art Museum Docents Guides
Creativity in Art & Design, Change your perspective Lecture for Raffles Design Institute students, Singapore
What are the main components of an artisitc approach ? Lecture for NUS engineering students
2015
Meet up and Signature at Parenthèses Bookshop, Hong Kong for Dernière Adresse and Le Secret de Xinmei
Singapore, Memory Paths - Writing and Creation Workshops, Alliance Française in Singapore
2014
Meet up and Signature at Société Générale Gallery, Singapore
2013
Book Launch Le Secret de Xinmei, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai China
2010
Lecture en tête, Festival of First Novel, Laval, France
Festival Hors-Limite, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France
2009
Meet up and Signature in Dublin, Ireland for Dernière adresse
EDUCATION
2022-23 Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France – Master 2 in Art Theory and Philosophy
2021-22 Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France – Master 1 in Art Theory and Philosophy, with Highest Honours
1998 AFEDAP, Paris – Specialized Wall Frescoe Degree
1993-96 Ecole Nationale des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art (Olivier de Serres), Top 3 French Arts School, - Fine Art Degree (BA), with Honours, Specialisation in Frescoe
1992 Baccalauréat - “A1” Level in Literature and Mathematics, with Honours
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