Hélène DELPRAT Portrait pourri remix 4 - 2014 Glitter pigments and false eyelashes on canvas Signed and dated on the back 99.5 x 80.5 cm Glitter pigments and false eyelashes on canvas ; signed and dated on the reverse 39,17 x 31,69 in. Provenance: Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris Acquired directly from the latter by the current owner "In life you should try everything except incest and folk dancing" / "Dans la vie on devrait essayer tout sauf l'inceste et la danse folklorique". Christopher Lee EN Over the past four decades, French artist Hélène Delprat's multifaceted practice has focused on the human condition, exploring life and death in a body of work that includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, theatre, interview projects and installations. Oscillating between fiction and documentary, humour and melancholy, Delprat's works form a sprawling constellation of references to literature, film, radio, philosophy, internet databases, recorded national histories and canonical art history. Like an iconologist, she distils eclectic sources of inspiration into a miraculous inventory - a world at once accidental and deliberate, beautiful and grotesque, where themes of memory, identity, recording and legacy come together to remind us that the past is a construct and the present is ephemeral. EN Over the past four decades, French artist Hélène Delprat's multifaceted practice has engaged the human condition as its focus, exploring life and death in an oeuvre that includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, theatre, interview projects and installations. Oscillating between fiction and documentary, humour and melancholy, Delprat's works together comprise a sprawling constellation of references to literature, film, radio, philosophy, internet databases, recorded national histories and canonical art history. Likened to an iconologist, she distils eclectic sources of inspiration into a miraculous inventory-a world both fortuitous and deliberate, beautiful and grotesque, where themes of memory, identity, recording and legacy coalesce to remind us that the past is a construction and the present is fleeting. Hélène DELPRAT "Dans la vie on devrait essayer tout sauf l'inceste et la danse folklorique" / "In life you should try everything except incest and folk dancing". Christopher Lee EN Over the past four decades, French artist Hélène Delprat's multifaceted practice has focused on the human condition, exploring life and death in a body of work that includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, theatre, interview projects and installations. Oscillating between fiction and documentary, humour and melancholy, Delprat's works form a sprawling constellation of references to literature, film, radio, philosophy, internet databases, recorded national histories and canonical art history. Like an iconologist, she distils eclectic sources of inspiration into a miraculous inventory - a world at once accidental and deliberate, beautiful and grotesque, where themes of memory, identity, recording and legacy come together to remind us that the past is a construct and the present is ephemeral. EN Over the past four decades, French artist Hélène Delprat's multifaceted practice has engaged the human condition as its focus, exploring life and death in an oeuvre that includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, theatre, interview projects and installations. Oscillating between fiction and documentary, humour and melancholy, Delprat's works together comprise a sprawling constellation of references to literature, film, radio, philosophy, internet databases, recorded national histories and canonical art history. Likened to an iconologist, she distils eclectic sources of inspiration into a miraculous inventory-a world both fortuitous and deliberate, beautiful and grotesque, where themes of memory, identity, recording and legacy coalesce to remind us that the past is a construction and the present is fleeting.