About

In her solo exhibition, Helene Le Chatelier works across a breadth of artistic mediums to explore the idea and image of the female body as a ‘terra incognita’, an ambiguous terrain open for new, and personal readings. Resisting the conventional male gaze of art history while simultaneously questioning ‘feminine’ attributes and histories, Le Chatelier’s close-up, yet abstracted forms offer up primordial, timeless landscapes. In other vignettes, these soft and dream-like images are punctuated – and punctured – by embroidered text, the delicate and painstaking sutures serving to yoke the female …