Nora Rupp
Photography 
Nora Rupp
ch. des Ramiers 22
1009 Pully
Suisse
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+41 (0) 76 520 91 38
Nora Rupp (CH, 1981) vit et travaille à Lausanne. Elle a étudié la photographie à l’Ecole d’Art Appliqué de Vevey. En parallèle à sa pratique artistique elle travaille en tant que photographe pour le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Plateforme 10. Depuis plus de dix ans, Nora Rupp développe et expose divers projets photographiques. Ces dernières années, elle se questionne plus particulièrement sur la figure de la femme et sa condition dans notre société, sur les rapports de force et la question de genre. En collectifs de femmes ou seule, elle aborde cette thématique de différentes manières. L’année 2021 sera riche en projets, expositions et publications autour et avec les femmes.
Nora Rupp (CH, 1981) lives and works in Lausanne. She studied photography at the School of Applied Arts in Vevey. Since 2010, she is the museum photographer of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. At the same time, she develops and exhibits several artistic projects, such as Sentier Battu, Ako and Henro, in different towns (Paris, Lausanne, Nyon, Assens), and she continues her self-portrait work which she started in 2001.
Expositions personnelles
2021
- Un coprs à soi. Autoportraits d'une femme, Lausanne, suisse
2009
- Sentier Battu, Focale, Nyon, Suisse
Expositions collectives
2021
- Centre culturel maison Visinand, Montreux, Suisse
Espace Artistes Femmes, Les figures féministes à travers les âges
2020
- Musée historique de Lausanne, Lausanne, Suisse
Lausanne XL-2
2013
- Fondation BAT Switzerland, Zurich, Suisse
Prix Photo 2013
2013
- Espace culturel Assens, Assens, Suisse
Hétérotopies
2011
- Festival de la jeune photographie européenne, Paris, France
Circulation(s)
2010
- Projection pour les 25 ans du Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Suisse
NEAR — Helvétie
Expériences professionnelles
Depuis 2010
- MCBA, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
2009
- Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et Croissant-Rouge (IFRC), Genève
Co-Commissaire d’exposition du 90 e anniversaire de l’IFRC
2008
- Manufacture, Haute École de Théâtre de Suisse Romande, Lausanne
2007
- Musée International de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, Genève
- Musée Olympique, Lausanne
Impressum
All images © Nora Rupp
Design: Aurèle Sack
Code: Romain Cazier
Typeface: LL Grey/Lineto
© 2022 Nora Rupp. All rights reserved.
Ako 
Ako
Since 2004, Nora Rupp often goes to Mougnon, a village in Benin; she works and even lives there for a while. From 2010, the photographer decides to carry out a photographic project staging all the families of the village she holds dear. The result is a series of 61 family portraits.
In the style of early photographic portraits, her sitters pose in a group in front of one of their houses. One wonders about each of the villagers’ role in the group, about their relationships and their everyday life. The series also brings attention to the background against which each family stands. By interacting with the depictions of the houses and of their interiors, the project gains rhythm as a whole and recounts how people from Mougnon live.
Following an almost ethnographic approach, the photographer shot the pictures according to the inhabitants’ preferred position in the group and took note of each family member’s name. Her modus operandi, which was the same for each family, sheds light on both the repetitions and the differences in the whole series.
Hétérotopie, Assens, 2013
