Exhibition: IN PROGRESS

Laia Abril is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, text, sound, and video, with a focus on long-term research-based projects. After graduating from university with a degree in Journalism, she moved to New York to pursue photography, where she began to tell intimate stories that explore uneasy and hidden realities related to sexuality, eating disorders and gender equality.

Abril has authored several highly acclaimed books including Thinspiration (self-published, 2012), Tediousphilia (Musée de l’Elysée, 2014), The Epilogue (Dewi Lewis, 2014), Lobismuller (RM Verlag, 2016), and On Abortion (Dewi Lewis, 2018). Her ongoing body of work, A History of Misogyny, has been exhibited internationally, and received numerous grants and awards. Abril is based in Barcelona and represented by the Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris.

Hoda Afshar is an Iranian-born visual artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Working with photography and moving-image, she explores the nature and possibilities of documentary image-making, and investigates the representation of gender, marginality, and displacement. Her work has been exhibited internationally, published widely, and is held in private and public collections.

She was awarded the National Photographic Portrait Prize by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra in 2015, and the Bowness Photography Prize in 2018. Her latest monograph, Speak the Wind, is published by MACK (2021). Afshar lectures in Photography and Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, and is represented by Milani Gallery in Brisbane, Australia.

Widline Cadet is a Haitian-born artist based in New York. Her practice draws from her own personal history, and examines race, memory, erasure, migration, immigration, and Haitian cultural identity from within the United States. She uses photography, video, and installations to construct a visual language that explores notions of visibility and hyper visibility, black feminine interiority, and selfhood.

Cadet has a degree in Studio Art from The City College of New York, and an MFA from Syracuse University.  Her work features in multiple publications and she is the recipient of numerous international fellowships, residencies, and awards. In 2020, Cadet was awarded the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Snider Prize, and was selected as a 2020-2021 Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Adama Jalloh is a documentary and portrait photographer based in London. Her work focuses on race, identity, and culture, cultivating a steady archive and ongoing conversation around the landscape of London and the transitions taking place within it. She aims to capture moments of intimacy, honesty and familiarity that resonate with both her own memories and experiences and speak to those of her audience too.

After receiving a degree in Commercial Photography from the Arts University Bournemouth, Jalloh has pursued a freelance career, working with many international clients including The New York Times, The Financial Times, TATE, Channel 4, Dazed & Confused, Island Records, Alexander McQueen, Adidas and NIKE. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally.

Alba Zari was born in Bangkok and lives and works between London and Trieste. Since childhood she has led a nomadic life, which is reflected within her photographic practice, using photography as a visual method of investigation and self-analysis. Zari received a degree in Film from Bologna University, studied Documentary Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York, and continued her studies in Photography and Visual Design at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

She was awarded the Graziadei Photography Award in 2019, and was a Selected Artist in FOAM Talent 2020. Zari’s work has been exhibited in many international photography festivals, galleries, and museums, and she is currently working on her first documentary feature film, White Lies.