Barques funéraires 1993

Trois Points Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada — Graf & Schelble Gallery, Basel, Switzerland — Large boats: metallic structure and wood clayons covered with shredded denim — L. 150 to 500 cm — Small boats: molded pigmented stone powder on tarlatan — L. 3 to 35 cm.

(…) “Michelle Héon also react to the spatial changes, to the movements, the transition of worlds. The arrangement of barges, those mysterious, fragile ships which represent the road between the poles, at times also the transition between the World and Hades, from order to chaos, making the idea of movement from place to place obvious. The ship made of paper shows all in one. It is movement in time, coincidence and enrapturement, haptic to the touch.” (…)

© Dr. Arnulf Herbst 1993, Frankfurt, Germany, excerpt from the catalogue Time Distance Displacement, Montreal, Canada / Basel, Switzerland.