Helen Eugster

Lives and works in Küsnacht, Switzerland

Artist statement

My artistic practice unfolds through sculpture and installation. Materiality plays an important role in my work and often determines both the process and the outcome. Many of my works explore the translation of one state into another: movement into form, an event into its trace, or making something intangible materially present. These processes often involve conflicting feelings, complexity and unease. I am particularly interested in imprints, negative forms and other ways of grasping the ephemeral. For me, this is where absence and presence, action, subject and object, or the concrete and the abstract become closely intertwined.

Artwork

• Re-membrane, 2026. Shed Asp viper skin, quartz sand - approx. 80 x 20 x 3 cm
• Feeding traces, 2026. Three Norway maple leaves with insect feeding traces, silicone rubber - dimensions variable
• Correspondence with a slug / Correspondence with snails, 2026. Two series of four sheets each - slug mucus on black paper / snail mucus and a feeding trace on black paper - each sheet approx. A5
• Thousand suns, 2026. Spalted ash wood, balsa wood, ink, clockwork – 29 x 27 x 5 cm
• Squeezing through my fingers / Pressing through my toes, 2026. Three bronze objects – two approx. 8 x 6 x 9 cm, one approx. 3 x 15 x 11 cm
• Watershed, 2025. Four bronze objects with varying finishes (each approx. 6 x 3 x 2 cm), pedestal, four A2 inkjet prints – dimensions variable
• Netz_Tela de esposas_Cuffs, 2024. Cable ties, plastic handcuffs - dimensions variable
• Butter_bites, 2023. Five silicone rubber objects – each approx. 5 x 7 x 6 cm
• Untitled, 2023. Vases, water, table, shelves, various fresh and dried flowers, cut or perforated using scissors, knife, hole punch, and drill - dimensions variable
• Tell me what time it is, 2022. Bathroom scale, thermometer, car instrument cluster, needles removed - dimensions variable