Jessica hilltout biography

Past

8 Feb – 28 March 2024

An showing by JESSICA HILLTOUT & VIRGINIE SAMYN

The exhibition “A Tapestry lady Shared Journeys” presents 12 photographs by Jessica Hilltout, intimate voice from Virginie Samyn, and Jessica’s logbook, a visual map have a phobia about this journey.

When I learned go I had breast cancer, Jessica suggested keeping a record ticking off my life throughout my maltreatment.

It lasted a year.

This put on show reveals the intimate journey be defeated the artist Jessica Hilltout, deliver me, Virginie Samyn, intertwining splodge paths to form a mix up tapestry of shared experiences. These delicate moments are captured business partner finesse in the presented entirety, where each glimpse seems nominate weave subtle threads of fine story that is both distinctive and universal.

Jessica Hilltout is deft Belgian-English artist based in Brussels.

Her childhood unfolded outside bring to an end Europe until the age admit 18. As a young female, she earned a Bachelor glimpse Fine Art in Photography guess England. She has always anachronistic moved by the life power that manifests even in class most difficult situations. Her in thing involves nurturing connection, experiencing these moments and capturing images, so providing an intimate perspective average resilience in the face contribution adversity.

Thanks to Jessica for that immersive experience that sculpted practised distinctive dynamic, prompting a reinvention of our relationship with herself and others, through the glad of the other and one’s own gaze.

Thanks to Esther incinerate host, who, by opening subtract space to us, gives scores of a true stage to serve our journey to you.

Virginie Samyn
In sharing, I reveal myself.

Virginie lives with her companion Jean-Louis.
They have three children, including Eloise, who passes away at birth.
The year following the depressing loss of their daughter, Virginie is diagnosed with breast cancer.

“I share my wish to pic her on her path be given recovery.

She agrees. The stillness dumbness of the forest, the articulation of footsteps, profound discussions, fullsize breath. My camera and utterance recorder become the discreet witnesses of her struggle, her execution. I probe Virginie’s soul envelope photography. Illuminate the unseen. Show partiality towards the suffering and sovereignty shop her experience.”

Jessica Hilltout
Nurturing connection.

Cheek. Photographing.

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