Adèle Hennion

By LatAm ARTE

Adèle Hennion is a young 25-year-old artist from Lille, better known as Flashiflash and followed by almost 5,000 people on Instagram. She offers wonderful surrealist collages. We thus find the submerged Opera, the Old Stock Exchange in a flying boat, the buildings on the Grand'Place and the Chamber of Commerce which floats in the air... A poetic and enchanting world which plunges us into the imagination of the gifted artist. In everyday life, Adèle Hennion is an architect. During her studies at the national school of architecture of Villeneuve d'Ascq, she discovered the technique of digital collage, and developed a sensitivity for observing buildings. Since then, she has joined the young Lille architectural agency Face B, dedicated mainly to public markets and urban facilities. Between Mayotte, Rabat and Lille - where she spent her childhood - Adèle immersed herself in the architecture of the cities of her childhood. “Head in the air” as she was nicknamed when she was younger, she always had her eyes glued to the sky to contemplate the buildings. She was notably marked in her perigrinations by the Alhambra of Granada, but also the Koranic schools of Marrakech, cubism and art deco in Prague... A multiculturality which makes all the richness of her artistic work. His work on the city of Lille began before confinement. Deprived of her favorite playground, and limited inside her house like us, she waits to “see Lille again” and then imagines her city differently. “During confinement, I really started to miss Lille, so I worked more on the city’s buildings, hoping to see them again soon,” explains Adèle. “With the confinement, I surely imagined them with much more perspective than when I take my usual walks in Lille and I photograph a bit of everything that is around me all the time. I think it brought new ideas,” she smiles. An artist deeply attached to Lille and who illustrates our pretty capital of Flanders in the most beautiful way.

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