Zoé Aubry (1993) develops a practice of critical, feminist, and experimental visual research through photography, within installations that unfold in space. Her work aims to reveal the mechanisms of visibility, and invisibility of dominant media narratives, notably through the use of poor images, inverting the logics of the attention economy. Positioned between societal and media critique, her research-based projects, which constitute image/text databases, revolve around the problematic modes of visualization and transformation of perceptual formats.
Wounded, the counter-images she employs become activated, armed, sutured, and recomposed in a collective movement, transitioning from the singular to the universal. The photographic medium is explored for its potential to create a collective and rebellious memory, opening up new perspectives on the perception of reality.
Holder of a Bachelor's degree in Photography from ECAL - École cantonale d'art de Lausanne and a Master's degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices from HEAD - Haute école d'art et de design de Genève, her book #Ingrid, co-published by RVBBOOKS and Gato Negro Ediciones in 2022, was shortlisted for the Autor Book Award at the Rencontres d'Arles and won the Most Beautiful Swiss Books award.
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Zoé Aubry
born in Switzerland in 1993
contact@z-aubry.ch
currently based in Geneva
www.z-aubry.com
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CV (pdf)
Wounded, the counter-images she employs become activated, armed, sutured, and recomposed in a collective movement, transitioning from the singular to the universal. The photographic medium is explored for its potential to create a collective and rebellious memory, opening up new perspectives on the perception of reality.
Holder of a Bachelor's degree in Photography from ECAL - École cantonale d'art de Lausanne and a Master's degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices from HEAD - Haute école d'art et de design de Genève, her book #Ingrid, co-published by RVBBOOKS and Gato Negro Ediciones in 2022, was shortlisted for the Autor Book Award at the Rencontres d'Arles and won the Most Beautiful Swiss Books award.
Zoé Aubry
born in Switzerland in 1993
contact@z-aubry.ch
currently based in Geneva
www.z-aubry.com
CV (pdf)
MA in contemporary artistic practices at the HEAD—Geneva School of Art and Design
BA of Arts in Photography at ECAL / University of Art and Design of Lausanne
Member of near. swiss association for contemporary photography
co-founder of Association AF*, whose aim is to create shared spaces for the development of artistic practices by womxn artists in Geneva x Laurence Rasti
Past:
Photography teacher at ECAL/University of Art and Design of Lausanne
Co-founder of FAIR collective, whose goal is to perpetuate and represent — intersectional feminist struggles within the local art scene x Constance Brosse & Loana Gatti
Editorial director, co-founder, artist and author of the magazine KILOMÈTRES, a research space linking curatorial, theoretical and visual approaches
President and co-founder of the non-profit association noeme which has worked for the diffusion and reflection on the contemporary artistic image x Clément Lambelet & Arunà Canevascini
Recent exhibitions
2024
EAC (les halles), Porrentruy, CH, currated by Philippe Queloz — Opening 24.02.2024
2023
Bourses de la Ville de Genève BLCG, Centre d’art contemporain, Genève, CH — Opening 05.09.2023
Nominated for the KIEFER HABLITZEL | GÖHNER KUNSTPREIS. SWISS ART AWARDS, Halle 3 Messe, Basel, CH — Opening 12.06.2023
MINIMIRACLES, SONNENSTUBE, Lugano
Vernice 17.02.2023
Opening Listening session: 18:00, Concerto 19:00, Performance 20:00
2022
Jungkunst, Halle 53 Winterthur, CH
Coup de Coeur, VFG, House of Photography, Olten, CH, currated by Ferit Kuyas
Unknown Names, Benaki Museum/Pireos 138, Athens Photo Festival, currated by Manois Moresopoulos
#Ingrid, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, CH currated by Doris Gassert
#Ingrid, Journées photographiques de Bienne, Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, CH currated by Sarah Girard
24x la vérité, Photo—Génies, Plaza, Genève, CH, currated by Sarah Zürcher
Collective (R)evolution, Home of queer & feminist creatørs, Geneva, CH
2021
LES RESISTANTES, L’Onde Centre d’art de Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR currated by Nathalie Herschdorfer
Guernsey Photography Festival, UK currated by Jean-Christophe Godet
Concerned, MICR, Geneva, CH currated by Julie Enckell Julliard and Pascal Hufschmid
2020
Biennale de l’image tangible, Paris, FR
Reproduction. Suture. [extrait] — solo show — Emergency.art space x Vevey Image, CH
Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
2019
Noms Inconnus — Prix de la Relève MBAL — Triennial of contemporary printed art — solo show — Musée des beaux-arts du Locle, CH
Rencontres de la Photographie de Marrakech, Maroc
Prix Art Humanité — CRG, CICR, HEAD — Genève, Genève, CH
Prix Voies off Contemporary Photography Awards — Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, FR
La voix libérée - Poésie sonore — Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
SOLID ARID SPLENDID — Binz39 Foundation, Zürich, CH
Pratiques de la distraction — LIYH, Geneva
Forever//Now — FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK
Nothing is something (to an observer) — LIYH & ArtGenève, Geneva, CH
Blue, Musée Ariana, Geneva, CH
2018
Swiss Federal Design Awards 2018, Halle 3 Messe, Basel, CH
Swiss Photo Award — vfg.selection, Prize for the best work of Swiss photography 2017, Photobastei, Zürich, CH
(In)égalité, Human Rights Photography Award 2018 — Act on your future, Galerie Art Bärtschi & Cie, Genève, CH
Southern Clairaudience — some sound documents for a future act, Vevey, CH
LapTopRadio — BAR projet, l’Electricitat, Barcelona, ES
ACT 2018, Performance Festival, Sierre, CH
2017
Aux arts, citoyens ! Human Rights Photography Award 2017 — Act on your future, Galerie Art Bärtschi & Cie, Genève, CH
Festival du Film et Forum International sur les Droits Humains, Genève, CH
The Luton Auguries, a collaboration with the Archive of Modern Conflict & Timothy Prus showcased in Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, FR
Comfort Zone (solo show), Le Cube, Fribourg, CH
Sharivari LAC scubardive, Festival Vevey Image, CH
ECAL Diplômes, Hall Kudelski, Lausanne, CH
2016
Regard (s) sur le Corbusier
Fondation Suisse, Paris, FR ;
Ville de Marseille, FR ;
Unité d’habitation de Briey, FR ;
Musée des beaux-arts de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, FR ;
Médiathèque d’Eveux, FR
Ossature — Association noeme (currator), Le Lab, Prilly, CH
2015
Summer University ECAL, Swissnex Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, BR
The Embarrassment Show, ECAL, Renens, CH ;
Unseen, Amsterdam, NL ;
NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, DE
MixingFaces, #Photobooth, Spacio d’el Orso, Design week, Milano, IT ;
D’Days, Paris, FR
Awards & shortlists
Prix Fondation Irène Reymond for platic arts
The Most Beautiful Swiss Books
Nominated for the C/O Berlin TALENT AWARD 2023 in the category of Artist
Shortlisted for the Autor Book Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles
Nominated for the bourses de la Ville de Genève - Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier et Galland (BLCG) pour la jeune création en arts plastique 2023
Nominated for the KIEFER HABLITZEL | GÖHNER KUNSTPREIS. SWISS ART AWARDS 2023
Graphic Design & Publication Award (2nd prize), CDA, Paris
Nominated for the C/O Berlin TALENT AWARD 2022 in the category of Artist
Awarded artist for L’enquête photographique genevoise 2022
Promotion of aspiring photographers, Pro Helvetia
Grant Promotion of photobooks, Pro Helvetia Grant
Nominated for the C/O Berlin TALENT AWARD 2021
Winner of the Award of Excellence in Visual Arts — HES-SO
Nominated for the C/O Berlin TALENT AWARD 2020
Shortlisted for the GPF international photography competition, Guernsey
Shortlisted for the vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis für Fotografie 2020
Winner of the Prix de la Relève MBAL — Triennial of contemporary printed art — Musée des beaux-arts du Locle, CH
Winner of the Prix Voies Off/2019 Contemporary Photography Awards | lacritique.org — Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles
Finalist of The Cosmos Award — Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, FR
Finalist of the Prix Art Humanité — CRG, CICR, HEAD — Genève, Genève, CH
Finalist of the Human Rights Photography Award 2018 — Act on your future
Winner of the Swiss Federal Design Awards 2018 in photography
Shotlisted for the Swiss Photo Award — vfg.selection, Prize for the best works of Swiss photography 2017
Finalist of the Human Rights Photography Award 2017 — Act on your future
Shortlisted for The Aperture Foundation /Paris Photo, PhotoBook Award (The Erratics in collaboration with Darren Harvey-Regan and Vincent Sauvaire, ed. rvbbooks, Paris)
Certified Gold Album, Artwork of the album and the single of Etienne Daho, Blitz / Les floncons de l’été, in collaboration with Luc Vega, ed. Satori songs, Virgin
Winner (twice) of the Photography award Regard(s) sur Le Corbusier
Monography
#Ingrid Escamilla Vargas, to be co-published by RVB Books and Gato Negro Ediciones
I am a sweet angel face who got into danger place, Picture-Vinyl published by activeRat
Noms Inconnus, upcoming
Impact, en quête de révolution, self-published
Natural Selection, auto-éd. in collaboration with rvbbooks and Erik Kessels
Publications
KILOMÈTRES (issue No1 — 3), éd. HEAD — Genève & ENSP — Arles, CH & FR
Choli Cholie, éd. rvbbooks, Paris, FR OFFLINE, conception and realization (interviews, photographs, design graphic) of the magazine No1-AW2015, éd. les Presses du Réel, Dijon, FR
Talks
The Artist Talks by The Eyes — currated by Véronique Prugnaud, Paris Photo
« Photobooks about body, power and critical approach to feminism », with Tara Ulmann, Roxana Savin and Sarah Girard, Photobooks Switzerland, Photoforum Pasquart — currated by Anastasia Mityukova and Jana Johanna Haeckel
How can photography make room for bodies and narratives sometimes invisibillised? with Marie Dupasquier, Ekow Eshun, Namsa Leuba — currated by Olivia Fahmy, « 99 talks » by Pro Helvetia, Les Rencontres d’Arles 2021
Gender dimensions : how is inequality produced and reproduced in a time of crisis?
with Dr Sumi Madhok, London School of Economics and Political Science — currated by Amelie Rose Schuele
Féminicides — Appelons un meurtre un meurtre, broadcasting, Radio Vacarme, RTS1
Unknown Names, Fotomuseum Winterthur, organised by Pro Helvetia
Les féminicides ne sont pas des faits divers!
Nectar, 25.11.2019, broadcasting, RTS2
Femmes invisibles dans l’art
La Puce à l’Oreille, 14.11.2019, broadcasting, RTS TV
Domestic violence, consequence of a gendered society?
Galerie Art Bärtschi & Cie, Genève, CH
Le Jura et sa création, muses de la photographe Zoé Aubry
Actualité, 15.05.2019, broadcasting, RFJ
Reactivation of the archive through performances and other artistic productions, Le Cabanon, Lausanne, CH
invited by the curator Camille Avellan
Impact en quête de révolution, Hypothèse typologique & esthétique invited by RHS18, Galerie du Sauvages, Porrentruy, CH
Researches
The difficulty of honouring the memory of unknown names.
Master’s thesis, under the direction of David Zerbib
What impact of the image on the territorial arrangement ?
Bachelor’s thesis, received with honors, under the direction of Joël Vacheron
BA of Arts in Photography at ECAL / University of Art and Design of Lausanne
Member of near. swiss association for contemporary photography
co-founder of Association AF*, whose aim is to create shared spaces for the development of artistic practices by womxn artists in Geneva x Laurence Rasti
Past:
Photography teacher at ECAL/University of Art and Design of Lausanne
Co-founder of FAIR collective, whose goal is to perpetuate and represent — intersectional feminist struggles within the local art scene x Constance Brosse & Loana Gatti
Editorial director, co-founder, artist and author of the magazine KILOMÈTRES, a research space linking curatorial, theoretical and visual approaches
President and co-founder of the non-profit association noeme which has worked for the diffusion and reflection on the contemporary artistic image x Clément Lambelet & Arunà Canevascini
Recent exhibitions
2024
EAC (les halles), Porrentruy, CH, currated by Philippe Queloz — Opening 24.02.2024
2023
Bourses de la Ville de Genève BLCG, Centre d’art contemporain, Genève, CH — Opening 05.09.2023
Nominated for the KIEFER HABLITZEL | GÖHNER KUNSTPREIS. SWISS ART AWARDS, Halle 3 Messe, Basel, CH — Opening 12.06.2023
MINIMIRACLES, SONNENSTUBE, Lugano
Vernice 17.02.2023
Opening Listening session: 18:00, Concerto 19:00, Performance 20:00
2022
Jungkunst, Halle 53 Winterthur, CH
Coup de Coeur, VFG, House of Photography, Olten, CH, currated by Ferit Kuyas
Unknown Names, Benaki Museum/Pireos 138, Athens Photo Festival, currated by Manois Moresopoulos
#Ingrid, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, CH currated by Doris Gassert
#Ingrid, Journées photographiques de Bienne, Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, CH currated by Sarah Girard
24x la vérité, Photo—Génies, Plaza, Genève, CH, currated by Sarah Zürcher
Collective (R)evolution, Home of queer & feminist creatørs, Geneva, CH
2021
LES RESISTANTES, L’Onde Centre d’art de Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR currated by Nathalie Herschdorfer
Guernsey Photography Festival, UK currated by Jean-Christophe Godet
Concerned, MICR, Geneva, CH currated by Julie Enckell Julliard and Pascal Hufschmid
2020
Biennale de l’image tangible, Paris, FR
Reproduction. Suture. [extrait] — solo show — Emergency.art space x Vevey Image, CH
Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
2019
Noms Inconnus — Prix de la Relève MBAL — Triennial of contemporary printed art — solo show — Musée des beaux-arts du Locle, CH
Rencontres de la Photographie de Marrakech, Maroc
Prix Art Humanité — CRG, CICR, HEAD — Genève, Genève, CH
Prix Voies off Contemporary Photography Awards — Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, FR
La voix libérée - Poésie sonore — Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
SOLID ARID SPLENDID — Binz39 Foundation, Zürich, CH
Pratiques de la distraction — LIYH, Geneva
Forever//Now — FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK
Nothing is something (to an observer) — LIYH & ArtGenève, Geneva, CH
Blue, Musée Ariana, Geneva, CH
2018
Swiss Federal Design Awards 2018, Halle 3 Messe, Basel, CH
Swiss Photo Award — vfg.selection, Prize for the best work of Swiss photography 2017, Photobastei, Zürich, CH
(In)égalité, Human Rights Photography Award 2018 — Act on your future, Galerie Art Bärtschi & Cie, Genève, CH
Southern Clairaudience — some sound documents for a future act, Vevey, CH
LapTopRadio — BAR projet, l’Electricitat, Barcelona, ES
ACT 2018, Performance Festival, Sierre, CH
2017
Aux arts, citoyens ! Human Rights Photography Award 2017 — Act on your future, Galerie Art Bärtschi & Cie, Genève, CH
Festival du Film et Forum International sur les Droits Humains, Genève, CH
The Luton Auguries, a collaboration with the Archive of Modern Conflict & Timothy Prus showcased in Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, FR
Comfort Zone (solo show), Le Cube, Fribourg, CH
Sharivari LAC scubardive, Festival Vevey Image, CH
ECAL Diplômes, Hall Kudelski, Lausanne, CH
2016
Regard (s) sur le Corbusier
Fondation Suisse, Paris, FR ;
Ville de Marseille, FR ;
Unité d’habitation de Briey, FR ;
Musée des beaux-arts de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, FR ;
Médiathèque d’Eveux, FR
Ossature — Association noeme (currator), Le Lab, Prilly, CH
2015
Summer University ECAL, Swissnex Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, BR
The Embarrassment Show, ECAL, Renens, CH ;
Unseen, Amsterdam, NL ;
NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, DE
MixingFaces, #Photobooth, Spacio d’el Orso, Design week, Milano, IT ;
D’Days, Paris, FR
Awards & shortlists
Prix Fondation Irène Reymond for platic arts
The Most Beautiful Swiss Books
Nominated for the C/O Berlin TALENT AWARD 2023 in the category of Artist
Shortlisted for the Autor Book Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles
Nominated for the bourses de la Ville de Genève - Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier et Galland (BLCG) pour la jeune création en arts plastique 2023
Nominated for the KIEFER HABLITZEL | GÖHNER KUNSTPREIS. SWISS ART AWARDS 2023
Graphic Design & Publication Award (2nd prize), CDA, Paris
Nominated for the C/O Berlin TALENT AWARD 2022 in the category of Artist
Awarded artist for L’enquête photographique genevoise 2022
Promotion of aspiring photographers, Pro Helvetia
Grant Promotion of photobooks, Pro Helvetia Grant
Nominated for the C/O Berlin TALENT AWARD 2021
Winner of the Award of Excellence in Visual Arts — HES-SO
Nominated for the C/O Berlin TALENT AWARD 2020
Shortlisted for the GPF international photography competition, Guernsey
Shortlisted for the vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis für Fotografie 2020
Winner of the Prix de la Relève MBAL — Triennial of contemporary printed art — Musée des beaux-arts du Locle, CH
Winner of the Prix Voies Off/2019 Contemporary Photography Awards | lacritique.org — Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles
Finalist of The Cosmos Award — Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, FR
Finalist of the Prix Art Humanité — CRG, CICR, HEAD — Genève, Genève, CH
Finalist of the Human Rights Photography Award 2018 — Act on your future
Winner of the Swiss Federal Design Awards 2018 in photography
Shotlisted for the Swiss Photo Award — vfg.selection, Prize for the best works of Swiss photography 2017
Finalist of the Human Rights Photography Award 2017 — Act on your future
Shortlisted for The Aperture Foundation /Paris Photo, PhotoBook Award (The Erratics in collaboration with Darren Harvey-Regan and Vincent Sauvaire, ed. rvbbooks, Paris)
Certified Gold Album, Artwork of the album and the single of Etienne Daho, Blitz / Les floncons de l’été, in collaboration with Luc Vega, ed. Satori songs, Virgin
Winner (twice) of the Photography award Regard(s) sur Le Corbusier
Monography
#Ingrid Escamilla Vargas, to be co-published by RVB Books and Gato Negro Ediciones
I am a sweet angel face who got into danger place, Picture-Vinyl published by activeRat
Noms Inconnus, upcoming
Impact, en quête de révolution, self-published
Natural Selection, auto-éd. in collaboration with rvbbooks and Erik Kessels
Publications
KILOMÈTRES (issue No1 — 3), éd. HEAD — Genève & ENSP — Arles, CH & FR
Choli Cholie, éd. rvbbooks, Paris, FR OFFLINE, conception and realization (interviews, photographs, design graphic) of the magazine No1-AW2015, éd. les Presses du Réel, Dijon, FR
Talks
The Artist Talks by The Eyes — currated by Véronique Prugnaud, Paris Photo
« Photobooks about body, power and critical approach to feminism », with Tara Ulmann, Roxana Savin and Sarah Girard, Photobooks Switzerland, Photoforum Pasquart — currated by Anastasia Mityukova and Jana Johanna Haeckel
How can photography make room for bodies and narratives sometimes invisibillised? with Marie Dupasquier, Ekow Eshun, Namsa Leuba — currated by Olivia Fahmy, « 99 talks » by Pro Helvetia, Les Rencontres d’Arles 2021
Gender dimensions : how is inequality produced and reproduced in a time of crisis?
with Dr Sumi Madhok, London School of Economics and Political Science — currated by Amelie Rose Schuele
Féminicides — Appelons un meurtre un meurtre, broadcasting, Radio Vacarme, RTS1
Unknown Names, Fotomuseum Winterthur, organised by Pro Helvetia
Les féminicides ne sont pas des faits divers!
Nectar, 25.11.2019, broadcasting, RTS2
Femmes invisibles dans l’art
La Puce à l’Oreille, 14.11.2019, broadcasting, RTS TV
Domestic violence, consequence of a gendered society?
Galerie Art Bärtschi & Cie, Genève, CH
Le Jura et sa création, muses de la photographe Zoé Aubry
Actualité, 15.05.2019, broadcasting, RFJ
Reactivation of the archive through performances and other artistic productions, Le Cabanon, Lausanne, CH
invited by the curator Camille Avellan
Impact en quête de révolution, Hypothèse typologique & esthétique invited by RHS18, Galerie du Sauvages, Porrentruy, CH
Researches
The difficulty of honouring the memory of unknown names.
Master’s thesis, under the direction of David Zerbib
What impact of the image on the territorial arrangement ?
Bachelor’s thesis, received with honors, under the direction of Joël Vacheron