Archi – La Dent de L’Oeil – Contemporary photography by Hélène Veilleux – #architecture #cityscape #concrete #building #archiphotographer #architect
During the Bosnian War the city of Sarajevo was subjected to the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare ( lasting 1425 days – beginning in April 1992 / 1995 ) ,
The 15th century fortress of Bijela Tabija with this incredible overlooking view of the whole area made it an unfortunate strategic point in the shelling process of the martyr city by the army of Republika Srpska.
The TID Tower // Tirana // Albania // 2007 // Architect: 51N4E
Mosque nasir ol Molk // Shiraz // Iran
Light will someday split you open …
Laddering the Tokyo’s Sky ! Asakusa 浅草 | Tokyo 東京 | Japan 日本
Greyjing Beijing @ CCTV Headquarters – La Dent de L’Oeil – Contemporary photography by Hélène Veilleux – #archiphoto #polution #china #air #architecture #CCTV #skyscraper #beijing #archiphotography #archiporn
Each city has its own language, Tokyo lets me lost in translation
Sugar cubes on the Ishim / Иши́м river banks // Astana // Kazaksthan
Astana ‘s State Auditorium Building – Центральный концертный зал Казахстан // Astana // Kazaksthan // Architects Studio Nicoletti
The Church of the Holy Spirit ( სულიწმიდის The Church of the Holy Spirit ( სულიწმიდის კათოლიკური ეკლესი ) // Batumi // Georgia // 1990 // Architects Oleg Pataridze & Giorgi Baghoshvil
Tatemono.
Praise and Curse of the vertical City.
I am pleased to be invited by visionquest to exhibit my serie : 38E parallele nord
Hélène Veilleux “strolls” in one of the most closed city in the world: Pyongyang, North Korea ……..
and she gives back postcard images that look like propaganda posters typical of the communist-era , filled with that hostility typical of that architecture designed to belittle the individual and emphasize the strength of the collective.
The power of the state on public spaces, where architecture becomes a political statement; Pyongyang is the example of a “theater” city where every view and every move are designed and built to serve a “fiction state” and where every citizen has a specific role in this authoritarian “theater”.Not being able to have access to the reality of the country, Hélène Veilleux, decides to concentrate the project of her photographs on a simple idea: what a country decides to show says a lot about what this country wants to hide.
Aided by the toned images through the use of a rosy filter, which gives them a sense of almost exaggerated sweetness, and embellished with clouds that look like cotton candy, these urban landscapes, with no or few people present, make us question what’s behind the long clean boulevards, the great monuments and brand new buildings, the large statues of the always smiling leaders: these are the questions that arise from silent 38E Parallel North.
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Solo & Groups Show
– Echappées Belles 2014 (Paris/France)
– ARCHIFOTO 14 ( International awards of architectural photography )
– Itinérances de Photo Docks Art Fair 2014 (Lyon/France)
– Exposition. Arles OFF 2015 (Arles /France)
– Totally Lost 2016 / 2017 (Italia / Albania)
– ARTEFIERA Bologna 2018 ( Italia )
– Odesa// Batumi Photo Days Festival 2018 ( Ukraine)
Interviews
– LMC : https://www.lemauvaiscoton.fr/art/escapade-en-coree-du-nord/
– Funquatre : http://www.funquatre.fr/fr/interviews/photo-darchitecture-helene-veilleux
– Women in photography : http://www.womeninphotography.info/blog/2016/5/6/hlne-veilleux-france
Біографія
Народилася 1978 року, довгий час жила і працювала в Ліоні, Франція. Зараз мешкає у Тбілісі, Грузія. У своїх роботах досліджує гетеротопічні простори, від дивної Північної Кореї до радіоактивних руїн Чорнобиля.