In the ground of Jokan-ji, also know as the ” Nage komi Dera / 投込寺 / the throw away temple” it said that the corpes of more than 2500 nameless women mostly in their early 20’s, sex workers of the yoshiwara district, where dumped between 1743 and 1801.
Red lipstick, hair pins and small feminine touches are still deposited in our day on the cenotaph
In the ground of Jokan-ji, also know as the ” Nage komi Dera / 投込寺 / the throw away temple” the corpes of more than 2500 nameless women, sex workers of the yoshiwara district, where dumped between 1743 and 1801
Nemui // Studio Six // Tokyo // Japan
Like Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry The TEPCO’s incident 1446 – The 8.9-magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Honshu island…. Talent : Mélainya Comtesse-Bathory
Hidden in the, as busy as posh Tokyo district, of ginza, the Pasona O2 project bring back greens in the tokyo’s ocean of concrete building.
Risky architecture in the heart of tokyo.
The Nakagin Capsule Tower // 中銀カプセルタワー //, one of the most iconic building of 1970’s japanese metabolist movement, is nowaday threatened with destruction by Real estate developers wishing to recover the field, conveniently located near the expensive Ginza ( Tokyo // Japan ) district.
ダムゼルインディストレスでは ありません // Studio Six // Tokyo // Japan
Not Damsel in distress ..
Laddering the Tokyo’s Sky ! Asakusa 浅草 | Tokyo 東京 | Japan 日本
Each city has its own language, Tokyo lets me lost in translation
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 ( 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.
