Laia Abril

New commission of speculative portraits of the 400 women who were executed as “witches” in Catalonia between 1450-1750. Now, the Parliament has recognized "witches" as victims of misogynistic persecution.

The style will mimic the forensic/portrait/disappearance image, we see in contemporary memorials about feminicides. The idea is that I'm speculating about who they were, and by giving them an image and a name we honour, from an artistic and political action, the mass killing.

Om:
Laia Abril (1986) is a research-based artist working with photography, text, video, and sound. After graduating from college with a degree in Journalism, she moved to New York to focus on photography, where she decided to start telling intimate stories that raise uneasy and hidden realities focusing on biopolitics and gender equality. In 2009, she enrolled in the artist residency at FABRICA, the Benetton Research Centre in Treviso, where she worked as a researcher, editor, and staff photographer at Colors Magazine for 5 years.

Utställningsplats: Härnösands konsthall