Melanie Bellue has blazed an original trail where the image is central. After studying communication and living in England, she graduated from Sorbonne Paris IV with an art history degree in 1999. She also started creating images as a video artist. After three years in Miami and her earliest curatorial experiences, in 2010 she returned to France, opening one of the first places in Arles focusing on contemporary art: LHOSTE Art Contemporain. To her, staging exhibitions in the gallery, which encourages experimentation, is an extension of her work as an artist. The goal remains the same: to question, disturb, and sublimate reality.