Rubis Mécénat Prize

Hélène Janicot is the 2022 winner of the Rubis Mécénat Prize in partnership with Beaux-Arts de Paris, which offers emerging artists from the school the chance to create an original installation for the church of Saint-Eustache. Working with curator Audrey Illouz, she presented a three-station installation in autumn 2022. Hélène Janicot's project for St. Eustache Church is structured around three artworks. The first, Temple Pulse, opens the exhibition and tests the force of attraction. Hélène Janicot redesigns the octagonal structure of the church's pillars by means of metal wires that run vertically. The whole is interrupted by an infra-thin gap that opens at the height of the head and is maintained by the presence of tensioned magnets.. A second station, (Lifts), o...