“Going beyond the ephemeral of the human body, and its anatomical fullness widely exploited by artists since the Greeks, the helmet, as a sculpture, should not be understood in its warlike significance. It is to be considered from the angle of the defense of art and heritage, when it is exhibited in a historic site. But the real keys are to be found, by metonymic shift, in the concrete representation of what is abstract: thought, reasoning, or soul. Or even more in the plastic of the sculpture: round and pointed helmet, full and hollow, concave and convex, exterior and interior. "Lydie Toran, Catalog of the Metaphysics of Helmets exhibition, 2012