Laia Abril

Laia Abril (Barcelona, 1986) is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, text, video and sound. After graduating in Journalism in 2009, she enrolled the artist residency at FABRICA in Italy, where she worked for 5 years as a creative editor and staff photographer at COLORS Magazine. Abril’s work has been exhibited internationally and is part of private and public collections such as Musée de l’Elysée, Fotomuseum Winterthur, FRAC and MNAC. She has been publishing books since 2012 and her new long-term project, A History of Misogyny, Chapter One: On Abortion, was presented at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2016 and won the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro-Arles and the Fotopress Scholarship. In 2018 the photobook On Abortion (edited by Dewi Lewis) won the Best Book Award Aperture-Paris Photo and has was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Award. Laia is currently developing the following episodes: Chapter Two: On Rape, recipient of the Visionary Award from the Tim Hetherington Trust and the Genesis Chapter: On Mass Hysteria, nominee of the Prix Elysée 2019.