Hélène Giannecchini is a writer, curator and lecturer in history and contemporary art theory at the University of Lille. She is the author of Alix Cléo Roubaud: A Portrait in Fragments, tr. Thea Petrou, Voir de ses propres yeux [Seeing With Your Own Eyes] and An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail, all published in France by Éditions du Seuil.