Delphine Hennelly

Delphine Hennelly navigates the complexities of identity, employing theatricality, repetition, and unexpected color palettes to challenge conventional perceptions. Her work often blends fleeting and enduring moments through non-linear, anachronistic timelines, creating a sense of omnipresence and temporal fluidity. By presenting archetypal figures and their interactions, she examines social behaviors, performative roles, and constructions of the self, deliberately removing them from biographical context to destabilize fixed interpretations and reveal multiple layers of meaning. Working primarily in painting and drawing, Hennelly explores the plurality of identity through pattern, satire, and theatrical motifs. She reconfigures archetypes and social relationships to highlight the performative and constructed aspects of selfhood, pushing each figure beyond fixed roles to activate a sense of fluidity. Her approach is deeply informed by feminist and gender theories, historical art practices, tapestries, and early Modernist movements, merging these influences to interrogate societal norms and the ways identity is continuously negotiated across time and context. ...