Hélène Giannecchini is a writer, curator and lecturer on history and contemporary art theory at the University of Lille. She is the author of  Une image peut-être vraie (2014, published in English as  Alix Cléo Roubaud: A Portrait In Fragments, tr. Thea Petrou),  Voir de ses propres yeux (2020) and  An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail (2024), all published in France by Éditions du Seuil. Her current research focusses on the visual history of gender minority groups in the latter half of the twentieth century.