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Helena Martin Franco, was born in Colombia and has lived and worked in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal since 1998. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the mixing of different artistic processes and the hybridization of traditional techniques and new technologies. Helena creates autofictions in which she explores the porous boundaries between cultural, national and gender identities. She is the founder of L'Araignée, a contemporary art dissemination collective, and of La Redhada, Red de mujeres artistas del Caribe colombiano, Las meninas emputás! a Carthagena-based anti-colonial activist collective. The recipient of the 2018 Powerhouse Award winner, she holds an MFA from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
