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Hélène Planquelle - France

Hélène Planquelle is a painter and muralist whose work explores archetypes of the Self, the relationship with shadow and the conjunction of opposites.

CAREER & REFERENCES

With a passion for literature and philosophy, Hélène Planquelle studied literature in preparatory classes, before joining a translation and communications school from which she graduated in 2016. It was from here that she developed her self-taught artistic pictorial work, guided by the need to give life and form to the voice that demanded to express itself through her.

 

Academic training :

  • Classes préparatoires littéraires (hypkhâgne & khâgne) Ste Marie-de-Neuilly
  • ISIT (School of Translation, Communication & Intercultural Management)
 

Artistic background : 

Represented by MAF (Musée des Artistes Femmes de Lausanne, Switzerland), Wild Beast Art, United Kingdom, Chenus-Longhi, Paris, Hélène Planquelle has taken part in numerous group and solo exhibitions in France, Brussels, Italy, Portugal and the United States. She has been painting murals since 2022, leaving the imprint of her artistic vision on building facades in France, Italy and Spain.

ROLE IN THE FESTIVAL

Hélène will be leading workshops and proposing the creation of an artistic scenography with live performance (where her work can be seen evolving throughout the week).

LIFE PHILOSOPHY

“When love beckons, follow it,
Although its routes are hard and steep.
And when his wings envelop you, surrender to him,
Although the sword hidden among its feathers can hurt you.
And when he speaks to you, believe in him,
Although his voice can shatter your dreams like the north wind ravages the garden.
For just as love crowns you,
So he crucifies you.»

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

https://www.heleneplanquelle.com/