Helena Faneca

Helena Faneca, also known under the artistic name of Georges Sieurac, lives and works in France where she explores the depths of the imagination, the unconscious and memory through mainly graphic production on paper. After a few years dedicated to oil painting, Helena oriented her work towards drawing, using tools and supports close to writing to encourage greater graphic wandering.

His creative process is spontaneous and intuitive, reminiscent of the scribbles we make mechanically on the phone. Starting from an initial draft, from a few sketched lines, Helena lets images emerge or disappear through analogies or associations of ideas, without preconceived ideas. It is inspired by the so-called mood method, used by artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Max Ernst, who saw in the random patterns of walls or textures dreamlike and hallucinatory worlds.

Helena's works, which she calls her Fantasies, are Memory-Images, fragments of accumulated stories. They evoke "Saudade", a Portuguese word difficult to translate which expresses a lack in the present without bitterness, an attempt to tame the unpredictable and to enter into harmony with it. His work is not a quest for a lost paradise but a reflection on nature and human destiny, often capricious and grotesque.

Helena Faneca is part of the tradition of the art of caprice, an artistic genre that appeared in the 16th century with Rabelais and in Flemish painting with Bosch and Breughel, then developed in the 17th century by artists like Jacques Callot and Tiepolo. His works, marked by repentance, present a sometimes clumsy, erased figuration, and a creative process which integrates accident and discovery.

His drawings and installations are often mysterious and enigmatic, requiring the eye to linger to reveal their hidden message. The representation is deliberately derealized, giving his works a dreamlike and introspective quality which invites the viewer to in-depth contemplation and attentive decryption.

Discover contemporary artworks by Helena Faneca, browse recent artworks and buy online. Categories: contemporary french artists. Artistic domains: Drawing, Installation. Account type: Artist , member since 2018 (Country of origin France). Buy Helena Faneca's latest works on Artmajeur: Discover great art by contemporary artist Helena Faneca. Browse artworks, buy original art or high end prints.

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