HÉLÈNE

In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile. His short and personal flashes of astonishment and fragility offer a striking image of a passage from one place to another, or a shift in frames of mind. Impulsive video sequences, not without a sense of humour, at times evoking an actual spatial escapism or on other occasions recording coincidental or purposeful emotional turning points. In ’Hélene’ Cattelain focuses his camera on his daughter, she wakes up with eyes full of innocence and amazement, to fall back to sleep soon afterwards.