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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2009
2022
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2010 - 2022
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All images © Nora Rupp
Design: Aurèle Sack
Code: Romain Cazier
Typeface: LL Grey/Lineto
© 2024 Nora Rupp. All rights reserved.
There is a sense of a secret being unveiled in the atmospheric voyage behind the imagery that Nora Rupp has created since 2003. Her evolution has followed that of technology. There is first a silver print of young girl, before the photographer turned to digital photography as she was about to become a mother.
We go through a woman’s life. Or rather, through all the potential lives of this woman. The series hints at the towns where she has lived, her relatives’ places, as well as abandoned fields she came across while walking. There is the romantic girl, the pregnant woman, the business woman, the old lady wearied by the weight of life…
In this work, Nora Rupp brings performance and photography together. The photographer poses as her own subject/model. But the metamorphosis is so powerful, the atmospheres so distinct that her work is more than a gallery of self-portraits. She looks for a place, an atmosphere which corresponds to some kind of mystery in her to which she needs to give birth. She defines the setting, observes it before starting the transformation. Thanks to make-up, clothes she has found in the course of her travels, wigs from her personal collection, she immerses herself into what could have been and is not, but still lives within her.