Hélène Baril was born in the French Alps, but grew up by the sea, the same part of Brittany frequented by the great filmmaker/biologist Jean Painlevé, who among other things, practiced filming under the sea. After getting an MA in literature, Hélène quit her job teaching French to study art. Moving to Finland, she began a career painting houses, purposely confusing the work of fine arts and decoration. Recently, she’s been developing a “tale” involving racecars. In 2011, she created Orlandus Gallery, inspired by a fictional Finnish painter and racing car driver from the early 1800s. The artist also served as inspiration for SBK, an experimental collaborative Hélène founded in 2012, which uses a car for meetings, projects, and as a working tool. Constructing its name and logo after Shell Oil, SBK is “an allegorical and poetic initiative,” whose sphere of operation touches literature, geography, economy, environmentalism, and popular psychology. In 2013 she started a collaboration with anthropologist Michael Taussig in what they call their Sea Theater. Hélène’s work is a fairy tale aimed at confusing real and fictional worlds, or simply encountering the one into the other.


www.sbkland.com (racing car tale)

12.5.13

sounds


SBK is heading to Spain tomorrow. The sound of the sea should be heard all way long inside the shell racing car. Some good pop music from the radio will make it as well. 

On Tikopia island (located in the middle of the pacific ocean), a foreigner visiting the island and coming from far far away (America), was asked by a man living on Tikopia: "friend, is there any land where the sea is not heard?" Looks like we always live on islands, whatever sound it makes. This is the departure story for My racing car is a shell, part 2. 



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