Hélène Fauquet - Vivresse

Lafayette Anticipations, 9, rue du Plâtre

Free

At the Fondation’s top floor, Lafayette Anticipations presents Vivresse, the first institutional exhibition in France dedicated to the artist Hélène Fauquet. Vivresse—a contraction of life and intoxication—invites visitors to discover a state where vital force and desire become one. Hélène Fauquet’s singular work illustrates a tension between ornamental forms and a conceptual dimension at the edge of surrealism. Her recent work explores themes of ornament and art, nature and artifice, as well as history and the present. The shell has weighed the work and is …