Henssé is a Canadian artist living and working in Montréal. She uses a wide variety of drawing, painting, mixed media and installation mediums in her visual creations. Working per project, her use of various techniques allows her to explore a range of representations and graphics.
This multidisciplinary artist likes to play with the ambivalence and symbolism of opposable and complementary topics such as the visible and the invisible, the veiled and the unveiled, the sacred and the profane, the open and the taboo, the public and the private. Through her surrealist drawings or her humans paintings in monochromatic cold palettes, she represents the antinomies created by associating these themes (the visible invisible, the unveiled veiled, ...).
The veil, the clothe, or the scarf is almost always present in her works. Drawn, painted, added, sewn, pasted or even used as a canvas for painting, these soft and elastic materials, translucent or opaque, whose iconography has never ceased to reinvent itself since Antiquity, feed her representations of the various human emotional states. Nevertheless, she sometimes prefers using the representation of the bubble, which translates in a rounded off way the door between two states (the public and the private image, the hidden and the revealed, ,...).
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