Hélène Delprat

Hélène Delprat’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth following the announcement of the gallery’s representation in collaboration with Christophe Gaillard Gallery opens in Paris. Organised with Olivier Renaud-Clément, the artist exhibition includes a selection of new large-scale paintings alongside sculpture, video and installation works across both floors of the space.

Over the past four decades, Delprat’s multifaceted practice has engaged the human condition as its focus, exploring life and death in an oeuvre that spans various mediums. After finding success for her distinctively primitive style of painting between 1985 and 1995 following her Villa Medici residency in Rome, Delprat turned her focus to video, theater, interviews, installations and projects for radio, whilst continuing to paint. Since the late aughts, the artist’s painting practice has been shaped by an encyclopaedic research process that encompasses a remarkable archive of sources. Delprat’s works, together, comprise a sprawling constellation of references to literature, film, radio, philosophy, internet databases, recorded national histories and canonical art history.