Short bio

Laia Abril (1986) is a research-based artist working across photography, text, video, and sound, focusing on biopolitics and gender issues. Her work emerges from embodied research, where lived experience becomes a method of inquiry. Grounded in a politically engaged, process-driven methodology, it employs strategies of forensic aesthetics and counter-narratives to interrogate dominant histories and the politics of representation.

Her installations have been exhibited in over 25 countries, and her work is held in the collections of institutions including Centre Pompidou (Paris), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), MACBA (Barcelona), Photo Elysée (Lausanne), Fotomuseum (Winterthur), and CNAP (France). She has authored acclaimed books, including The Epilogue, Lobismuller, and the A History of Misogyny series: On Abortion, On Rape, and On Mass Hysteria.

She has received the Spain’s National Photography Award, the Foam Paul Huf Award (Amsterdam), the RPS Hood Medal (London), and the Aperture PhotoBook Award (New York/Paris), among others. Based in Barcelona, she is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Lucerne and is represented by the Gallery Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris and Set Espai d’Art in Valencia.