Laia Abril

A multidisciplinary artist, Laia Abril specialises in woman’s rights, mourning, and biopolitics, and her research-based practice combines photography, text, and sound by means of which she explores difficult, hidden realities. One of her most acclaimed projects “A History of Misogyny”, has been exhibited in more than fifteen countries and her works are held in collections of such centres as the Pompidou Centre, the FRAC, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Musée de l’Élysée, and the Fotomuseum Winterthur. The opening chapter, “On Abortion” (Dewi Lewis, 2018), was the first winner of the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro. This was followed by “On Rape” (Dewi Lewis, 2022), which won the Visionary Award and the Foam Paul Huf Award. The final piece “On Mass Hysteria” (Dewi Lewis + Delpire) has become an exhibition co-produced by Photo Elysée (Lausanne, 2023), the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, and Le Bal (Paris, 2024). Laia Abril has published other outstanding works, including The Epilogue (Dewi Lewis, 2014) and Lobismuller (RM, 2016), for which she has received numerous awards like the Hood Medal of the Royal Photographic Society, and Spanish National Photography Prize (2023). She is a senior lecturer in Visual Narratives at Camera Arts (HSLU) and is represented by the Parisian gallery Les Filles du Calvair and Set Espai d’Art (Valencia).