Twister or
Twister is the title of a series of paintings created starting in 2006 and continuing until present day, but Twister is also something more. The paintings are starting points in the creation of spatial relations. Embedding images in the recesses of the existing space resulting in an opening of secret passages or "additional" spaces. The Painting countinue here in the real world and the boundaries set by architecture are masked or moved through a painting illusion. This type of connection of paintings with a place also takes on a permanent dimension - the canvas together with a specific spatial context becomes an inspiration for subsequent works. Therefore, the new images carry the memory of old contexts.
At other times, the artist displays paintings on the walls, in a way that seems traditional. However, from certain points of view, their boundaries are no longer legible. Imaging in this case the universe is subjected to more volatile effects than the architectural frame factors such as lighting and wall colours.
Understanding Pascale Heliot's work is to let oneself be surprised because their sense is steeped in the moment of uncertainty about the status of emerging views. It would not be an exaggeration to state that her work has more to do with installation or site-specific activities than with classic painting - a different one is created in each new exhibition space, unique whole, although its components can be used repeatedly.
In all Pascale Heliot implementations, interference in the integrity of the medium painting has a special rank. Images from the Twister series were based on photos, however, "infecting" painting with a photographic idiom seems to interest the author the most, images show unidentified streaks of light in close-up or blurred landscapes. The painting representation, which is created in a controlled way, imitates the randomness of photography by focusing on fleeting combinations of colours and lights. It is perfectly visible in the paintings the effect of the shutter and iris - proper manipulation of them allows both to obtain sharp as well as blurred, close to abstraction photo. Pascale Heliot uses in the case of the discussed work, the latter possibility.
Pascale Heliot's "abstract" canvases do not fit into the photographic pedigree a long tradition of painting not representing. The artist is primarily interested in the relationship art and reality, not the autonomous image world itself. This is not only readable in works, but also in her statements about her work: "On individual paintings, they are in contact with each other, distant places coexist, which in reality have nothing with each other common. This process of contacting the real world with the image and combining it into one whole creates the painting "space of travel". In addition to many inspirations for the creation of these images was also thought about a world that is not a closed whole, made up of fragments that often do not match yourself, the world imagined by W. Benjamin. Citing various fragments of reality I create on situations possible only in the imaginary context and combination."