Openfolio #6: Public Portfolio Readings
as part of the program to support creative endeavors
Recherche & création
Maison de la Culture de Tournai
20 Jun. → 21 Jun.
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Hélène Petite
Photographer and professor
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Born in 1983, Hélène Petite holds a degree in visual arts from LUCA School of Arts and has training in book and paper design.
She is also a certified teacher and professor of photography. She lives and works in Brussels.
His work has been exhibited in Belgium at the ISELP in Brussels, the Musée de la Boverie in Liège, and the BPS22 in Charleroi; in France, notably at the Approche art fair in Paris.
“My practice explores the necessity of creating new images. As a counterpoint to the frenetic production of images that characterizes our era, I focus on those that already exist—drawn from collective or personal archives, found images—and in doing so, I reflect on what the act of creating images might entail. ” — Hélène Petite