Addressing intimate and complex themes, Spanish artist Laia Abril structures her long-term projects into chapters, combining photography, text, archives, video, and sound to fully unfold their narrative depth.
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Laia Abril, Ala Kachuu (Bride Kidnapping), Kyrgyzstan, 2019, Power Rape, On Rape
After studying journalism, Laia Abril moved to New York to fully dedicate herself to photography by joining the International Center of Photography.
She then chose to tell intimate stories related to sexuality, eating disorders, and gender equality. In 2009, she joined a five-year residency offered by LA FABRICA (Madrid) and the Benetton Research Center (Treviso), where she worked as a researcher, editor, and photographer for Colors magazine.
Laia Abril’s projects take various forms—installations, books, online works, and films—and her work has been exhibited and published internationally, notably at Le BAL in Paris, as well as included in private and public collections such as the Musée de l’Élysée and the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, the FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in France, and the MNAC and FotoColectania in Barcelona.
After completing her five-year project On Eating Disorders, focused on eating disorders, Laia embarked on a trilogy entitled A History of Misogyny, composed of three parts: a preliminary chapter, On Mass Hysteria, followed by On Abortion and On Rape.
On Abortion was presented at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2016. This project received the first Madame Figaro Photography Award, supported by the Fotopress grant, and was nominated for several prestigious prizes, including the ICP Infinity Award and the Foam Paul Huf Award.
The exhibition has traveled to more than 13 countries, including the Photographers’ Gallery (London), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb), the Centro de la Imagen (Mexico), and the Museum of Sex (New York). In 2019, she was awarded the Hood Medal by the Royal Photographic Society.