About

The French artist Hélène Delprat bends time-periods, genre, and the limits of taste to craft a conceptual and pictorial universe that is as immersive as it is idiosyncratic: a world in which documentary and fiction collide. Her work bristles with what she calls “coincident affinities”: tonsure rituals, Louis XIV, wigs, masks, B-horror films, French cinema, and ancient Greek literature. Delprat primarily focused on painting at the outset of her career before delving into what she calls her “submerged practices”—namely writing, film, radio, and video—and giving them an equally prominent role in …