{"id":1439,"date":"2016-10-06T08:38:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T08:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2016\/10\/06\/helene-veilleux-38e-parallel-nord\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:07:23","slug":"helene-veilleux-38e-parallel-nord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/2016\/10\/06\/helene-veilleux-38e-parallel-nord\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"HELENE VEILLEUX <br> 38E PARALLEL NORD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1439\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1439-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1439-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1439-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">October 6th - November 26th 2016<\/h2><p>\u00a0<\/p><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1439 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"1475075564big_HV001G\" href='https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1475075564big_HV001G.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1475075564big_HV001G-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"1475075564big_HV02G\" href='https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1475075564big_HV02G.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1475075564big_HV02G-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"1475075564big_HV03G\" href='https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1475075564big_HV03G.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1475075564big_HV03G-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1439-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1439-0-0-1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Techincal Info<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div>\u201cTourist:<\/div>\n<div>The forehead pressed against the bus window, eyes wide open to capture every inch of the city flowing by.?Clinging to my camera, accumulating postcard images with the secret hope of finally being able to confront the reality of this city nestled beyond the 38th parallel north, with the sum of the images, voices and fantasies that inhabit my mind.?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0But I\u2019m a tourist, and the bus is already taking off again \u2026.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Veilleux \"strolls\" in one of the most closed city in the world: Pyongyang, North Korea ........<\/div>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div>The power of the state on public spaces, \u00a0where architecture becomes a political statement; Pyongyang is the example of a \"theater\" city \u00a0where every view and \u00a0every move are designed and built to serve a \"fiction state\" and where every citizen has a specific role in this authoritarian \u201ctheater\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>Not being able to have access to the reality of the country, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Veilleux, decides to concentrate the project \u00a0of her photographs on a simple idea: what a \u00a0country decides to show \u00a0says a lot about what this country wants to hide.<\/div>\n<div>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, \u00a0the large statues of the always smiling leaders: these are the questions that arise from silent 38E Parallel North.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u201cMy creative work could be defined as a thin line between reality and fiction. I invite you to cross the 38th parallel north and \"visit\" Pyongyang, ... \"<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1439-0-0-2\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"2\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1439-0-0-2\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Techincal Info<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div>\u00a0Edition of 5 - \u00a0cm 40 x 60 and cm 70 x 100<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Archival Fine Art \u00a0prints \u00a0on Hahnem\u00fchle FineArt Matt 308 paper<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Mounted on 2mm dibond\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1439-0-0-3\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"3\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1439-0-0-3\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Biography<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Veilleux was born in Lyon,lives and works between \u00a0Lyon (France) e Tbblisi (Georgia) -<\/div>\n<div>Baikonur, Chernobyl, Transnistria ...<\/div>\n<div>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Veilleux's photos are part of an attempt to question the reality, exploring the concept of \"Zone\": its spaces, real or imagined, where everything that we take for granted it is not as much a \u00a0bit 'less\u201d ... where \u00a0certainties crumble, giving way to something definitely ... More ......<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1439-0-0-4\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"4\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1439-0-0-4\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Solo &amp; Groups Show<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<ul>\n<li>Echapp\u00e9es Belles 2014 (Paris\/France)<\/li>\n<li>Itin\u00e9rances de Photo Docks Art Fair 2014 (Lyon\/France)<\/li>\n<li>Exposition. Arles OFF 2015 (Arles \/France)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1439-0-0-5\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"5\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1439-0-0-5\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Interviews<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>LMC:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemauvaiscoton.fr\/art\/escapade-en-coree-du-nord\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.lemauvaiscoton.fr\/art\/escapade-en-coree-du-nord\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Funquatre:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funquatre.fr\/fr\/interviews\/photo-darchitecture-helene-veilleux\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.funquatre.fr\/fr\/interviews\/photo-darchitecture-helene-veilleux<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Women in photography:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womeninphotography.info\/blog\/2016\/5\/6\/hlne-veilleux-france\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.womeninphotography.info\/blog\/2016\/5\/6\/hlne-veilleux-france<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladentdeloeil.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.ladentdeloeil.net<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1439-0-0-6\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"6\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1439-0-0-6\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Press Release<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1475075237_Veilleux38EParallelNord.PressRel..pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>versione stampabile comunicato<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 6th &#8211; November 26th 2016\u00a0 \u201cTourist:The forehead pressed against the bus window, eyes wide open to capture every inch of the city flowing by.?Clinging to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionquest.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}