Hélène Giannecchini

Hélène Giannecchini is a writer and curator, specialising in the relationship between text and image. In 2014 she published Une Image peut-être vraie. Alix Cléo Roubaud [translation by Theano Petrou, A Portrait in pieces, Sylph edition, 2023] with Seuil and directed the Alix Cléo Roubaud retrospective at the Bibliothèque nationale de France that same year. Her following novel, Voir de ses propres yeux [See With Your Own Eyes], was published in January 2020. Her new book Un désir démesuré d’amitié was released in August 2024. For several years now, she has been writing in collaboration with contemporary artists and she curated several exhibitions.

As a Doctor of Literature, she has given lectures at the Pompidou Centre, the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Basel, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, the Jeu de Paume, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, galerie Buchholz New York, among others. She was a resident of Villa Médicis in 2018-2019 and of Villa Albertine in 2022.