Isle of Tears // Minsk // Belarus
The memorial unveiled in 1996 and initialy dedicated to the loss in conflict involving Soviet forces in Afghanistan (1979 – 1988) has rightly become a monument to all sons and daughters of Belarus, who died in the battles of all times.
Soviet modernism + Soviet modernism + Soviet brutalism // Georgia
We must select a smaller number of standard designs .. and conduct our mass building programs using only these designs over the course of, say, five years .. and if no better designs turn up, then continue in the same way for the next five years. What’s wrong with this approach, comrades?
Nikita Khrushchev
Escape from a HR Giger dream … The space jockey @ Museum of Archaeology // Tbilisi // Georgia
Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex // Yerevan // Armenia
(Armenian: Կարեն Դեմիրճյանի անվան Մարզահամերգային Համալիր)
Tbilisi Nutsubidze plato ‘s iconic sky bridge Sky Bridge // Georgia
Started in 1985 under soviet regime, and still partially incomplete, the massive monument overlooks the caucasian city of Tbilisi . Composed of 30 meter tall columns, the georgian “stonehenge” features the stories of ancient queens, heroes and kings of the kingdom of sakartvelo while the bottom panels depict episodes from the life of the Christ.
Urban exploration in Tbilisi … the hidden temple in the heart of the old Museum of Archaeology
Ночной дозор
I definitly belong to the night patrol …
Inside the Abkhazia Parliament Building ( @ Sukhumi ) burned during the Georgia Abkhazia conflict (1992-1993).
27 September,1993 an operation to take over the government building of the Republic of Abkhazia was launched in the center of Sukhumi by Kabardian volunteers.
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.
