Hawa Laetitia
Hawa Laetitia Konate is a visual artist born in Bamako, Mali and raised in Paris, France.
She studied graphic design and art direction in ECV Paris and EFET Studio Créa and received her master’s degree in this field in 2023. This education inspired her to deepen her artistic approach and gave her the tools to learn and develop her skills and knowledge as an artist. Hawa Laetitia Konate is currently based in Toulouse, France and is working as freelance graphic designer.

As an artist, Hawa Laetitia is convinced that the first subject artists address is themselves and this is where her artistic approach begins.

Since her teenage hood, she has been writing to put into words the strong paradoxical and ambivalent emotions she feels, to understand better what was happening in her life and to express herself. 
She, then, naturally started to use the art of collages, painting, and zines to visualize and put on paper the distress and blur in which she found herself– in which she still finds herself – later, photography inspired her to use her body as a medium as part of a cathartic expression. 
Those feelings drove her to create and enable her to tackle universal topics, such as: the idea of self and self-expression, the feeling of belonging, loneliness… but also more personal, violent subjects such as rage, anger, madness, and death.

Through her art practice, she aims to open her world, to share and create community using art as an outlet and tool for self-expression and self-exploration.


Education
Master in graphic and digital design, 2023
EFET Studio Créa, Paris, France
Bachelor in graphic design, 2021
ECV, Paris, France

Fairs and exhibitions
Éphéméride Festival, 2023
Octroi Grande Halle, Nancy, France

Featured in
Safelight Paper - read the article here
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