Biography

Born in 1988, Florian Luthi lives and works in Geneva. He gained a Master in Contemporary Art Practice: Moving Image at the Royal College of Art in London (2019) and a Bachelor in visual communication, major in photography at the University of Art and Design Lausanne (2012).

He likes to expose subjects that question what we cannot control, by stripping them of their substantial marrow, thus creating a new original narrative. Whether through a process close to theatre or a more familiar connection with the image, the visual aspect and the writing develop jointly in his different works. A combination of dreamlike poetry and experimental images are an attempt to create new landscapes about the representation of the sublime.

Moving images and photography works allow him to explore the image as a skin’s surface and interrogating its texture in this geological age called the Anthropocene where we, as humans, are living.

Exhibitions

— 2018, Best Experimental Film, Super Shorts Film Festival, London, UK
— 2017, Swiss Photo Award (finalist), Zürich, Switzerland
— 2015, Artistic Prize City of Nyon, Switzerland
— 2014, Kiefer Hablitzel Award, Basel, Switzerland
— 2014, Selected by Pro Helvetia for the promotion of young talent in photography, Switzerland

Awards

— 2019, Stuttgarter Filmwinter — Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
— 2018, Simply Beaming, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
— 2017, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
— 2017, Prix Photoforum, Centre Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland
— 2014, Premio Kiefer Hablitzel, Museo d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland

Publications

— MJR Melanie JeanRichard – Exhibition Book II
— Mon Tendre, Swiss Fashion Photography, Aaluäga Books
— NOWHERE postcards, selected by Lars Willumeit, Grussformat
— Hallo Deutschland, Soirée Graphique n°10, Das Magazine
— Der Greif, Jubilee-issue #10