Author Archive for: helene

PART I L’Interstice is a new addition to the growing art world based in Arles. A city that I visited with John Gibson in the early 1980’s for the first time, when he was making his usual southern tour to stop and see collectors and museum directors with his Citroen CX filled to the brim […]

The design team for DRAW ART FAIR worked magic in the Saatchi gallery. Shout out to Paris-based designer Mathilde Bretillot, London-based architect, Miska Miller-Lovegrove and designer Fernando Gutiérrez created the fair’s architecture, scenography, furniture and visual identity into a minimalist envelope. It was a radical experiment to install a fair for drawing in all its […]

PART I This book arrived earlier today. I found it on ABE’s Books, the drug of choice for those who prize books over human contact these days; we are still in confinement even as Paris wakes up for spring. My suitcase waiting to travel again pulls against this rootedness, which has given me more time […]

In the past week, we’ve seen Belfast ignite again.Almost 20 years ago, Esther Shalev-Gerz spent time in a marginalized Dublin neighborhood. “In November 2003, Esther Shalev-Gerz developed Daedal(us) a night-time labyrinthine journey through Dublin’s North East Inner City an historic neighbourhood of deprivation then on the brink of regeneration. Conceiving of Daedal(us) as fundamentally dependant […]