De la guerre au selfie/ l'image de soi- duo exhibition Maison Pelgrims, Brussels, Belgium-2019

In 2012, Hélène Picard begins to photograph her face, to accompany her trough a painful period. The selfie becomes a tool to understand, to get to know herself, to hold out, to make what happens into art. This serie called ipersonallyi, is gradually diffused on social network as a sort of diary of the different identities that reveal themselves in front of the camera.
This practice is in line with the artist's research through painting and clothing, into the means of self-expression. A face masked by a jewel, an embroidered coat, a dress portrait, are all ways of exposing interiority on the surface. The accessory, the pause, the light, even the absence, everything contributes to telling a part of us.

Artitude Gallery and IntoImage present an exhibition which brings together two artists whose work resonates with the visuals that invade our daily lives, some indivuals, others collective. In resonance with the private carachter of the Pelgrims house, the exhibition offers a journey from the intimate through the portraits of Hélène Picard to its confrontation with the chaos of the engravings of Nathalie Van de Walle.