Laia Abril

Laia Abril (1986) is a research-based artist working with photography, text, video, and sound. After graduating from college with a degree in Journalism, she moved to New York to focus on photography, where she decided to start telling intimate stories that raise uneasy and hidden realities focusing on biopolitics and gender equality. In 2009, she enrolled in the artist residency at FABRICA, the Benetton Research Centre in Treviso, where she worked as a researcher, editor, and staff photographer at Colors Magazine for 5 years. Abril’s projects are produced across installations, books, and films. Her work has been shown widely and published internationally. It is held in private collections and museums, such as Centre Pompidou and FRAC in France, Musée de l’Elysée and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, MoCP in Chicago, Museum of Sex in New York and MACBA, MNAC and FotoColectania in Barcelona. She is a senior lecturer of Visual Narratives at Camera Arts (HSLU) and is represented internationally by the Parisian gallery Les Filles du Calvaire and Set Espai d’Art in Valencia.