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 and in a printing shop.

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 creates to exist, to affirm her place in the world. Hawa Laetitia’s art is an act of self-exploration and self-assertion, a way to translate the paradoxical and ambivalent emotions that shape her. 
Writing was her first tool—an attempt to understand, to make sense of the chaos within. 
Over time, her practice expanded into collage, painting, and zines, giving form to the distress and confusion she experienced. Later, photography became a natural extension, herbody a medium, a space of catharsis and expression.

Through her work, she explore both the deeply personal and the universal: the fluidity of identity, the search for belonging, the weight of loneliness. But she also embrace raw, unfiltered emotions—rage, madness, desire, death.  Hawa Laetitia’s art is intimate yet bold, an intersection of vulnerability and defiance.

She create to share, to connect, to claim space. Art is her language, her way of saying: 
I am here. We are here. We have the right to be seen.
She want her work to be a mirror, a manifesto, an invitation. Through beauty, irony, and authenticity, she opens a space where we can strip ourselves bare, where presence itself becomes resistance.

“This is my voice. This is my story. And I refuse to be silent.”



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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