Biography

In its thinking form, her work is freedom, worry, research, cohesion, connivance, juggling between critical, poetic and political dimensions.Based on anthropological investigations, her approach is built on a relationship between societal phenomena and individual experiences. Creating spaces of confrontation, her work is a criticism of contemporary society. Graduate from ECAL/University of Art and Design of Lausanne in the Visual Communication department, major in Photography, where she currently works as a teacher, Zoé Aubry worked in the Parisian publishing house RVBBOOKS as artistic director, photographer and graphic designer before starting a master’s degree in contemporary artistic practices at the HEAD—Geneva School of Art and Design.

Awards

– 2019, Prix de la Relève MBAL — Triennal of contemporary printed art, Musée des beaux-art du Locle, Le Locle, Switzerland
– 2019, Prix Voies off Contemporary Photography Awards lacritique.org, Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France
– 2019, The Cosmos Award, Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France
– 2018, Swiss Federal Design Award in photography, Basel, Switzerland

Exhibtions

– 2021, LES RESISTANTES, L’Onde Centre d’art, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
– 2019, Noms Inconnus, Musée des beaux-arts du Locle, Switzerland
– 2019, Forever//Now, FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK
– 2019, La voix libérée, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
– 2018, (IN)ÉGALITÉ, Human Rights Photography, Galerie Art Bärtschi & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland

Publications

– #Ingrid Escamilla Vargas, upcoming
– Noms Inconnus, upcoming
– Impact, en quête de révolution, self-published, 2018
– Natural Selection, self-published in collaboration with rvbbooks and Erik Kessels, 2015