Artist Tour: Laia Abril
Laia Abril . Artist / Sophia Greiff . Curator C/O Berlin
English
12/6 euros (incl. exhibition)
Online available and at the box office at C/O Berlin
Catalan artist Laia Abril (b. 1986) presents her broad-ranging, research-based work On Rape – And Institutional Failure, which uses an assemblage of found and original photographs, reports, quotations, videos, and artifacts to explore the structures that make rape possible. It is the second chapter of her long-term project A History of Misogyny, in which she responds to manifold forms of systemic violence against women.
Working across temporal periods, cultural practices, and media, Abril reveals the normalization of misogynist attitudes and behaviors in society and politics but does not resort to explicit depictions of sexualized violence.
Together with curator Sophia Greiff, the artist will guide visitors through the exhibition and provide an insight into the working process and the exhibition concept.
Laia Abril (b. 1986) is an interdisciplinary Catalan artist. After training as a journalist, she took part in photo courses at the International Center of Photography in New York, concentrating on uncomfortable and suppressed realities around sexuality, eating disorders, and gender equality. For her work, she has been awarded the National Photography Prize 2023 by the Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Government of Spain. She received the FOAM Paul Huf Award (2020) and a Magnum Foundation grant (2019), and was a finalist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2019). Abril’s works are held in many collections around the world, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Photo Elysée, Lausanne; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Victoria & Albert museum, London; and Foto Colectania, Barcelona. On Abortion, the first chapter in her long-term project A History of Misogyny, has been exhibited in over ten countries, including the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki (2019); The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2019); and at Rencontres d'Arles (2016). Her books On Abortion: And the Repercussions of Lack of Access (2018) – which was awarded as best book of the year by Aperture/Paris Photo – and On Rape: And Institutional Failure (2022) were published by Verlag Dewi Lewis.
