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2025

Hélène Amouzou

Hélène Amouzou is renowned for her powerful, black and white photographic self-portraits exploring themes of identity and exile.  In collaboration with Arup Phase 2, The Line is commissioning a new series of photographs by Amouzou, which will be displayed at the Royal Docks.  These works will be the outcome of a residency and workshops with representatives from local communities.  It will be the first UK public commission for the Togolese born, Belgium-based artist and the latest of The Line’s Longitudinal Dialogues.

Co-curated with Arup Phase 2

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Biography

Hélène Amouzou was born in Togo, West Africa, in 1969 and has been living in Brussels (Belgium) for the last twenty years. In 2004, she went to study photography and video at the Académie de Dessin et des Arts visuels of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. Photography has proved to be the medium best suited for her artistic research and technical experiments. She prefers to work with film, which she sees as demanding greater attention to detail. She creates her own distinctive and haunting imagery, which speaks to the contemporary issue of the people in exile and of those invisibilized. “Self-portraiture is a way of writing without words. My aim is to reveal the deepest parts of myself” says Hélène Amouzou.

 

Image: Courtesy of the artist.

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