SBK: Drawings/Paintings

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)

contact@sbkland.com

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3.5.14

Awakening

Who still know the room where he raised his first cry, where he witnessed a last breath?"

Louis Veuillot, Les Odeurs de Paris

16.1.14

windows

7.12.13

Undersea

pencil on paper

24 x 32 cm

3.12.13

patterns

Matti

Aki and James

pencil on paper

24 x 32 cm

20.11.13

fools

The light is so strange in Finlandia. Yes, here we are in Finlandia, Suomi.

New worlds to build up in this age of toxicity. Baltic Sea, wait for us.

7.10.13

Black and White (with the Sun) Series

Knighthood

Pattern (with Robert Walser)

The Boat

The Boat II

The Fall of one king

Argus walking

pencil on paper

32x24cm

24x32cm

20.6.13

bellevue patate

15.6.13

Canon à Patates 3

Potato design by Cetusss

30.5.13

canon à patates

28.5.13

getting ready for potatoes again

Canon à Patates, 2013

Champs de patates, 30 watercolors series ©hélène baril 2010

14.5.13

"you love art - you hate art"

Also: España now

Azuqueca

Guadalajara

Madrid

Above all, Azuqueca

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.

9.5.13

shell 2

5.5.13

My friend, is there any land where the sound of the sea is not heard?

Body is feeling weak today. Started out a new series of drawing. Salmiakki drawings. For now, here are some old ones, not too old though. North Uist Island drawings. And also today, just finished to complete and write some quite important texts and file. Will post it tomorrow at the postoffice, not on facebook.

the beasts are back.

the oldest rock in Europe

the freshest rabbits shit in Europe

17.4.13

North Uist Island

So far SBK hasn't collapsed on North Uist Island, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. It has even succeeded. SBK will write more in a close future about its feeling regarding that stunning-mind-blowing island. For now images will make the story. Finnish SBK Karhu (bear) is back working on projects, experimenting video shoots (https://vimeo.com/user9972742), drawing, creating new folks. This animal series stands between the ideas of collapse and succeed. (here refering to Jared Diamond's book, Collapse, How societies choose to fail or succceed).

animal 1

animal 2

animal 3

animal 4

animal 5

animal 6

animal 8

animal 9