Hélène Bellenger Portfolio 17 place jean Jaurès 13005 Marseille (france) Tel: 06.48.89.48.28 email:
[email protected] WEB: www.helenebellenger.com Instagram: helene.bellenger Hélène Bellenger collects and reappropriates images taken from her spatial, temporal and digital contemporaneity, in order to question and overturn their meaning. Through this work of confiscation and re-use of images, the artist digs into her visual culture and thus deconstructs the intermediary, political and cultural space of the “re” in representation. Born in 1989, Hélène Bellenger lives and works in Marseille. After a double degree in law and art history, she specialized in photography and contemporary art at the Sorbonne University. She graduated from the French National School of Photography in Arles in 2016. Immediately after her degree, her installations BIOGRAPHY were exhibited at Agnès B. gallery in Paris, curated by Alexandre Quoi and Aurélie Pétrel. In 2017, she exhibited & at the 62nd Salon de Montrouge, at the Salon Variation - Artjaws Media Art Fair and at the Binôme gallery in Paris. In December 2017, she was invited by the French Institute STATEMENT to present her first solo show at the Soma gallery in Cairo (Egypt). Laureate of the Dior Photography Prize for Young Talents for the ENSP, with her project Right Color, she exhibited at the Luma Foundation during the Rencontres d’Arles festival 2018, as well as the Circulation (s) Festival, at 104 in Paris. After a residency in Corsica, as part of the Ateliers Médicis (2019), she received the Nopoto research and creat grant. She took part in a residency program in a high altitude shelter, l’Envers des pentes.