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Helia Mey is a French artist born in 1999. After a few trips that awakened in her this taste for “elsewhere”, she chose to take root in a new space, which she now defines as a “home” that constitutes her identity: this place out of this world is Liguria, a border region to France located in northern Italy, where artists and witches still meet. At the age of 25, she learned a reality family history of which she knew nothing: a new grandfather, new origins to explore and a new story that she will choose to dress herself in to better embrace her identity. At 25, the tree takes deeper roots: somewhere in Kabyle territory. Helia Mey, whose artistic and reflective work has always been imbued with an immanent interculturality and a need to let "situations" speak, refusing to reduce her art to any technique, any medium, and ultimately to any subject, embracing at the same time all causes and all eras, finds in the reconquest of her identity of woman, a legitimacy to arm herself as an artist of disorder and borders.