Hélène Guetary

Hélène Guétary is a photographer, author and director.

After the publication of the photo album Skindeep produced in 1984 and prefaced by Federico Fellini, she worked on a photographic and multimedia project for many years: HYPNOPOMPIA, an anthropological fiction. Supported by Polaroid, she used their experimental 50x60 chamber between 1985 and 2010. Only 3 chambers existed in the world, the 50x60 Polaroids are unique pieces because there is no negative. This chamber is no longer circulating today and the film is no longer manufactured.

This work has been the subject of several exhibitions in France and the USA: Galerie Jacques Kaplan / NY, Galerie Albert Benamou / Paris, Galerie Opera / London / Paris, Galerie Lydie Trigano / ArtParis ... international magazines such as Zoom, L'Atelier, Actuel, Camera Arts (US) Photography (Germany), Direction (UK), Vogue (Greece).

Some works have joined private collections.

Hélène Guétary is also a director [multi-awarded for her original creations for the ARTE channel, including “Moutons" from 1992 to 2012] with short films, fictions, documentaries and then immersive videos for the Opera, and author of 4 novels, Le Petit Homme Bleu 1999, La Chapelle des Cannibales 2000, Le Monde de Cosmo, 2005 and La femme à poils Longs, 2007.

Inspired by the loneliness of the first confinement, the multidisciplinary artist has resumed her cameras. Taking on the role of model, she produced two series Me, myself & I, a surrealist photographic soap opera and Le monde masqué.

The masked world. was selected by Artdoc Magazine as part of an online exhibition HUMAN Beings not human skins, also published in issue 2 of the new magazine HAS (Humanities Arts and Society, Jan. 21) and a selection of images was exhibited in dec; 2020 at the Basia Embiricos Gallery including the Contact / Without Contact exhibition.

His new Zeitgeist series is a poetic call to pay attention to the fragility of the world ...