The following images belong to Ella Helman's archives and include exhibition views and performance footage.
SISYPHE À PARIS (SISYPHUS IN PARIS) — 2020
[Sculpture installed on the forecourt of the Centre Pompidou as part of Nuit Blanche 2020 in Paris, France]
Sisyphe à Paris, 2020
Sculpture
PRIS EN SANDWICH (SANDWICHED) — 2015
[Photographic installation presented in the market hall of Saint-Denis, France]
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, 2015
Performative Photograph
SUR MARS, IL N'Y A PAS DE SOLEIL (THERE IS NO SUN ON MARS) — 2014
[Performance and sculpture by Ella Helman presented during Nuit Blanche 2014 in Paris, France]
Among traffic and passers-by, an alien sculpture assumes both a protective and confrontational stance. Holding an electronic heart in both hands, it transmits love.
Contemporary society moves in haste. It is driven by conquest, without considering other possibilities. Yet there is no sun on Mars.
15127 SECONDES BATTEMENTS DE COEUR — 2012
[Sculpture by Ella Helman presented at Fort du Vert-Galant in Wambrechies, France]
15,120 seconds: a life begins. Viewed from the front, a beating heart gradually emerges as one approaches the sculpture — a symbol of peace embodying the hope vested in future generations. On its reverse, inscriptions recount the barbarity of genocides, like scars etched into the skin. Inspired in its pose by the dancers of Edgar Degas, the sculpture confronts humanity with questions of love and death, beyond good and evil.
15127 secondes battements de coeur, 2012
Sculpture