When you step through the doors of Hubert Le Gall’s atelier in Montmartre in Paris, you feel as if you’ve stepped into Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland or a Dali painting, entering into a strange new world where everything has been turned upside down and nothing is what it seems. It’s a universe where different fairy tales have come to life and proceed to dialogue with one another. The vision is playful, the shapes unusual, the proportions oversized, the materials luxurious, and there’s always the recognisable hint of childhood. The works are at once familiar and unfamiliar: there are chamomile commodes, rabbit ear armchairs, dog lights, bull cabinets, sheep dressing tables, giraffe chimneys, raindrop mirrors and skull sculptures. There are even mice running up and down a room divider, Pinocchio…
