La maison rouge presents in 2017 the first major exhibition in Paris of works by Hélène Delprat, an artist whose singularity gives voice to endless creativity andinventiveness. Inspired by literature – from Ovid’s The Metamorphoses to the contemporary novel by way of Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf – film, internet databases, radio and press, each day brings new opportunity for Hélène Delprat to develop a sensitive and darkly humoristic art that takes in both fiction and documentary. Hélène Delprat’s work is about representation, memory, legacy and recording. The energy-images she proposes – whatever the medium – trigger constellations and offshoots, figurative and conceptual associations, inventories almost.