Finalist 2018
Zoé Aubry
Zoé Aubry graduated with a Bachelor of Photography at ECAL, worked for the publishing house RVBBOOKS before starting a Master's in Contemporary artistic practices at HEAD-Geneva. Zoé Aubry starts from the singular to express the universal in a critical, poetic and political way. Between freedom, anxiety, research, cohesion and collusion, her work challenges and invites reflection.
Noms Inconnus, 2018
Is female emancipation still fatal in 2018?
Extracting the funeral litany of victims of domestic violence from the news section and bringing the stories together viscerally highlights the recurrence and violence of a social fact. Bringing them together in a book compels us, in particular, to question the mediatization of this phenomenon. Restoring to these victims even if only an identity, a few lines of existence, a situation, a history, pushes us to discern the extraordinary violence that takes place within the very heart of conjugal intimacy. Strangulation. Restrictor. Punch. Drowning. Fire. Rifle bullets. Ceramic knife stab. Dagger. These images are the result of a process of deterioration. The eponymous edition traces the entirety of the feminicides that took place in 2018 on French territory, mapped on the cover.
Extracting the funeral litany of victims of domestic violence from the news section and bringing the stories together viscerally highlights the recurrence and violence of a social fact. Bringing them together in a book compels us, in particular, to question the mediatization of this phenomenon. Restoring to these victims even if only an identity, a few lines of existence, a situation, a history, pushes us to discern the extraordinary violence that takes place within the very heart of conjugal intimacy. Strangulation. Restrictor. Punch. Drowning. Fire. Rifle bullets. Ceramic knife stab. Dagger. These images are the result of a process of deterioration. The eponymous edition traces the entirety of the feminicides that took place in 2018 on French territory, mapped on the cover.
