Hélène Giannecchini

Born in 1987, Hélène Giannecchini is a French writer, researcher, and art theorist. She holds a PhD in literature, specializing in the relationship between text and image, and is a member of the Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage (EHESS/CNRS).

She is the director of the Alix Cléo Roubaud collection, a photographer and writer who died in 1983, to whom she devoted her initial research, as well as an exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 2014 and a thesis in 2016.

Hélène Giannecchini undertook residencies at the Villa Medici between 2018 and 2019 and at the Villa Albertine in 2021. Her books Une image peut-être vraie. Alix Cléo Roubaud (2014), Voir de ses propres yeux (2020), and Un désir démesuré d’amitié (2024), were all published by Éditions du Seuil in the “Librairie du XXIe siècle” collection. Her current work, based on a research/creation methodology, focuses on minority archives from the second half of the twentieth century and on the relationship between exhibitions and literature.