Laia Abril, National Photography Award 2023
Laia Abril has been awarded with the 2023 National Photography Award, granted by the Ministry of Culture and Sports and endowed with 30,000 euros. The jury has awarded the award "in recognition of a work of artistic research" that, after being documented in different parts of the planet, has concentrated on "current" themes that socially and politically structure discriminationespecially of women, as well as the individual and collective suffering that relegates certain people as an anonymous mass on the margins of society.
Laia Abril (Barcelona, 1986) is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, text, video and sound. After graduating in Journalism, she worked for five years at the Fábrica artist residency in Italy, as creative editor and photographer for COLORS Magazine. Her work, structured in thematic trilogies, addresses issues related to sexuality, the body, psychology and women's rights with the aim of breaking social taboos about what is different and promoting empathy. Some of her best-known series are 'On Sexuality', 'On Eating Disorders' or 'A History of Misogyny'.
He has published several books such as 'Thinspiration' (self-published, 2012), 'Tediousophilia' (Musée de l'Elysée, 2014) and 'The Epilogue' (Dewi Lewis, 2014), the latter recognized at the Paris Photo-Aperture First Book awards Award, Kassel PhotoBook Festival and PHotoEspaña Best Book Award. His work has been exhibited in various international exhibitions and is part of private and public collections such as those of the Musée de l'Elysée and the Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Regional Fund for Contemporary Art of France (FRAC) or the National Art Museum of Catalonia ( MNAC).
