Nora Rupp
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Nora Rupp (1981), vit et travaille à Lausanne en suisse. Elle a étudié la photographie à l’École d’Arts Appliqués 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. A travers ses derniers projets, «Un corps à soi» et «Cabanes des possibles», Nora Rupp remet en question notre société aliénante dans laquelle nos corps, nos habitats et nos conduites sont déterminés et organisés. La photographe se confronte à son propre rapport au monde et au vivant. Ses projets engagés nous amènent à observer les oppressions exercées sur les femmes ainsi que sur toutes les formes du vivant et du non-vivant, ils nous poussent à sortir de nos zones de confort et à décoloniser nos imaginaires, pour en créer de nouveaux.
Cabanes des possibles
Un corps à soi
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All images © Nora Rupp
Design: Aurèle Sack
Code: Romain Cazier
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Pilgrimage: Long journey or search of great moral significance.
Nora Rupp started her artistic research from that concept. Walk to find the answer to what she wanted to photograph.
In 2008 she made her first pilgrimage that led her from her doorstep to Santiago de Compostela, 2000 kilometers away. The constraint of following the markers of a long road resembling a railroad became the “leitmotiv” of her photographic work. In 2010 her second pilgrimage was further away, less known, but yet popular among natives. The 88 temples of Shikoku. About 1400 kilometers around the island of Shikoku in Japan.
From a new context arose new prospects. During the first days of this long walk she became aware of a new reality. In this remote rural area, solitude and isolation born from cultural differences, communication issues, and the mountaineous relief made her work evolve.
Loneliness made her reflect on the larger scale of “Henro”, the Japanese word for both the pilgrim and the road s/he follows. Landscapes and buildings started to pose for her as pilgrims.