Rubis Mécénat Prize

Hélène Janicot was born in 1999, she lives and works in Paris. She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018 and has been working since then in workshops where she develops a plastic expression covering several mediums; volume, drawing, writing, video. The rigidity of the materials (stone, metal) is matched by performative actions whose movement gives rhythm to the space. She graduated with honors in 2024.

In her work, she gives a preponderant place to the spatialization and temporality of her pieces. Their relativistic nature takes up the idea of a mental architecture that unfolds at multiple scales. She is passionate about cognitive biases, which bring into play memory and the ability to anticipate, in short, those mechanisms that allow the mind to venture into the field of abstraction. This space of projection can be translated, as here, in installations involving magnetic fields or the laws of physics. The whole answers each other in a quest for balance.