Munganyende Hélène Christelle

Author and political scientist

Hélène Christelle Munganyende (1993) is a writer and a student of political science. She grew up in Kigali and Eindhoven and currently lives in Brussels. She publishes articles on feminism and political empowerment of millennials with a migration background in platforms like Vogue, Vileine, and OneWorld.

Juul Hondius

Artist

My work centres on the status and impact of media images and the ways in which they enter and determine our collective memory. How images can construct an imago or how they sustain or shape our narratives and worldviews, especially documentary images with a claim to truth. I hope my work makes people wonder about what they see, how they see it and how we are usually conditioned to see within a narrow perspective. My photographic works are fantasies based on facts- but facts made up of complex relations. By doing so I try to analyse the different visual strategies and styles of image-making that frame a subject.

In more recent works, the work itself tries to frame it’s subject in more subjective ways, playing with it’s history and present mediatised status quo.

Alexandre Furtado Melville

Independent writer, art director, artist, sampler, entrepreneur and investor

Alexandre Furtado Melville (1988) is a writer, artist, art director and entrepreneur. His current roles include partner and business director at Concrete Blossom, committee member visual arts for the city of The Hague, creative director and founder of Furtado Melville. In his work, Furtado Melville is driven by the invisible, the unexpected. The economic, social, and political realities play an important part in his practice. Common sense is his philosophy. He is currently working on his first book, an autofiction on Europe through the eyes of the black African migrant.