Viewpoint visit with Hélène Delprat, artist, and Valérie Sonnier, artist and teacher at the Beaux-Arts.

Hélène Delprat is an artist, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and a former studio head. Her polymorphous practice explores the human condition, life and death. Her work encompasses painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, theatre and installation, combining references to literature, cinema, history and philosophy. Hélène Delprat is represented by the galleries Christophe Gaillard and Hauser & Wirth, Paris.

Valérie Sonnier is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and has taught drawing and morphology at the school since 2003. Using a variety of media - drawing, painting, photography and super8 film - she unfolds a universe exploring the links between intimate memories and the collective memory of childhood, notions of presence and absence, and ghostly apparitions.

She was awarded the Prix Château Kirwan at the BAD+ fair in Bordeaux in 2024.

Performances

Lisa Lecuivre and Simon Deterre, Maman ?

‘By studying the body of work in the exhibition, Lisa Lecuivre has created her own theory:
Everything has been written. It's her mother drawn in charcoal by the artist Etcheverry!
‘She feels it. Etcheverry, her mother, 1888, the Beaux-Arts, it's all connected’.
In reference to Etcheverry's charcoal from 1888.

A 15-minute performance co-written with Anne Rigollet and Simon Deterre.

Lisa Lecuivre is in the studios of Dove Allouche and Julien Prévieux; Anne Rigollet is in Julien Prévieux's studio; Simon Deterre is in Dove Allouche's studio.
 

Mickael Berdugo, Reading and improvisation about the ghosts of the Beaux-Arts

Performance, 15 min.

Mickaël Berdugo is a multi-disciplinary artist who improvises, invents and stages himself to poetically convey the absurdity of the world through humour. The Souvenirs de jeunesse exhibition is an opportunity for him to awaken the ghosts inhabiting the Beaux-Arts in Paris by recounting snippets of their lives through a performance.

Mickael Berdugo is in his 4th year in Julien Prévieux's studio.

Practical information

Souvenirs de jeunesse
Wednesday 16 October 2024 - Sunday 12 January 2025
Beaux-Arts de Paris, 13 quai Malaquais, Paris 6e
Wednesday to Sunday, 1pm-7pm
Nocturne on Thursday until 9pm

5€, 10€ or 15€, the choice is yours!
 

Photo credits: © Hugo Aymar