A creative fundraising collaboration between CITTA and the French artist, Hélène Guétary. Hélène embarked on an amazing human experience in Jaisalmer, India, at the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School on the edge of the Thar Desert. Working for three weeks with sixteen of our girl students, Hélène created an epic tale for their future based on the world they want to live in. The girls embodied the characters in a giant photographic fresco, as well as a series of single images.

All proceeds will go to the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School in Jaisalmer, India.

Hélène Guétary is a visual artist, writer, and director. Born in Paris, she soon moved to New York for 12 years, where she started her career. After a few exhibitions of her paintings and drawings, she published a book of her early «Tableau Photography» work in collaboration with P. Casanova, SKINDEEP, with a foreword of the late Federico Fellini. She then worked on a project that lasted for two decades, HYPNOPOMPIA, a multi-media anthropological fiction. It has been exhibited in France and the US. Narration being a central element to her artistic creations, she naturally moved on to directing and writing.

She has worked internationally for 20 years, directing numerous award-winning short films, documentaries, and TV dramas. She also conceived immersive videos for the Opera and wrote four published novels. Hélène recently returned to photography, inspired by the loneliness of the lockdown. Her recent work was presented in a solo show at REMEDES GALERIE in Paris in September 2022 She’s been working on a few series, THE MASKED WORLD and ZEITGEIST, calling for attention to the fragility of our world. She was invited by the Basu Foundation for residencies in 2023 in Mauritius and in India, where she had a collaborative show with artist Jayesh Sharma at the INDIAN MUSEUM in Kolkata and the NINE FISH Gallery in Mumbai, and started the KUMARI NAYIKA adventure.