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Hawa Laetitia 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 is currently based in Toulouse, France and she’s working as an artist-author 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.

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 collages and zines, giving form to the distress and confusion she experienced. Later, photography became a natural extension, her body a medium, a space for 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 like 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. And it should be enough.

She want her work to be a manifesto of existence. Through beauty, irony, and authenticity, she opens a space where we can strip ourselves bare, where presence itself becomes resistance.

Education

Master in graphic and digital design, 2023
EFET Studio Créa, Paris, France

Bachelor in graphic design, 2021
ECV, Paris, France

Exhibitions and shows

Éphéméride Festival, 2023
Octroi Grande Halle, Nancy, France

Featured in

Figure Photography
(previously Safelight Paper)

Hawa Laetitia

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