Hippolyte Hentgen — Galerie Bernard Jordan
As part of the exhibition Frammenti, presented at Bernard Jordan Gallerie in Paris from October 18 to November 22, 2025, the artist duo Hippolyte Hentgen, composed of Gaëlle Hippolyte and Lina Hentgen, invites the visitor on a visual journey where imagination takes hold of space, volume, and color.
Fragments that appear as scattered yet recomposed elements, suspended between stillness and movement, within a setting designed to host a thought in the making. In rhythm and color, in volumes and whirls, the fragments of the duo inhabit, with the grace of imagination, the space of Galerie Bernard Jordan, which for the duration of the exhibition becomes a fantastic setting for an art of fantasy.
Here, the fabrics do not veil; they frame the images and edit the object of the gaze. There, the materials — wood, marble, metal — quite literally clothe the lines, supporting or undoing at will the undulations of light. The organic is muted, camouflaged, desensitized. The association and combination of forms, aesthetic, social, and cultural, become the driving force of a visual voyage that subverts immobility.
The foot, ours as much as that of furniture, an essential figure in this presentation, seems to beat the rhythm of a thought in motion, always slightly off to the side, gliding in search of the reasons for its own pursuit. The care and meticulousness of a background in the paintings or a base element in the sculptures then act as a prelude to the emergence of an approximation, one that is almost political.
Confronted with an art that has long believed itself reconciled with nature, it seems that the surroundings, the neglected, and the margins reclaim their rights within these fragments, pushing the frame just below what it thought to immortalize, preventing the disappearance of what had been overlooked.
With elegance, Hippolyte Hentgen once again manages to give form to a herbarium without genus, a bestiary without species, welcoming within it both images and ideas, guided only by the hierarchy of the unexpected, of the ultimate path, to finally compose an open glossary of putative candidates for existence, unless, perhaps, they have already been exhausted.
Hippolyte Hentgen, Frammenti, from October 18, 2025 to November 22, 2025 at Galerie Bernard Jordan, 2 rue Guénégaud, 75006 Paris
