Tskaltubo (Georgian: წყალტუბო) was a busy spa resort during Soviet times and keeps the memory of regular Stalin visits. Nowadays many of the sanatorium complexes have been re-assigned into housing complexes for refugees that have been displaced from their homes because ethnic conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The abandonned music school // Akhmeta // Georgia
The strange Batumi tower ( former Technological University), one of the Georgia’s tallest building, has a small ferris wheel at its top.
Ghost towers of the black sea
J. Mayer H. Architects // Anaklia // Georgia
On the shore of a glassy sea , Sokhoumi, the capital of the unrecognized country of Abkhazia dreams .
Famous throughout the twentieth century and the former Soviet Union times the black sea’s balniaire station which was once hardly hit during the Georgian–Abkhazian conflict ( 1990s ) takes a bet on russian tourism to recover its old glory, but some wounds are long to heal …
Allegory at the black sea sanatorium // Abkhazia
In September, 1993, during the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict five Tupolev civilian airliners were hit by missiles in Sukhumi – Babushera airport . Over 150 people perished in the attacks.
The Queen tamar airport (ხედი ზურულდის მთიდან) // Architect : J. MAYER H // Mestia // Georgia
Batman’s den ?? Daedalus ‘s bas-relief of the Auditorium of Technical College Auditorium // 1976 // Tbilisi // Georgia
Since the Abkhaz–Georgian conflict (1989–present) the old bridge over the enguri River is de Facto the DMZ between Georgia and the breakaway state of Abkazhia.
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 ( Bologna / Italia )
– Odessa // Batumi Photo Days Festival 2018 ( Odessa / Ukraine )
– Festival Panoràmic 2019 ( Granollers / Spain)
Interviews & Publications
– LaSpirale.org – Un Ezine pour les Mutants Digitaux : HÉLÈNE VEILLEUX « LA DENT DE L’OEIL » (laspirale.org)
– 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
and some terrible one …
– Daily Mail : Chernobyl nuclear disaster: Eerie photographs by Helene Veilleux | Daily Mail Online
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.
