Lila Neutre

Lila Neutre was born in 1989.
This young French artist is the first photographer to earn a PhD from the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d’Arles in partnership with Aix-Marseille Université in 2017. Her thesis, entitled “Sculpter le soi: l’apparence comme dispositif de résistance” (Sculpting the self: appearance as a device of resistance), questions the place of clothing in collective undertakings of social subversion.

Lila Neutre’s artistic approach, mainly rooted in the fields of photography and social sciences, invites us to consider appearance as a space of meaning that can express political positions. While her visual vocabulary refers to popular culture and fashion imagery, her work questions broader concepts of identity and self-expression in contemporary Western societies.

Her most recent project, supported by the CNAP, focuses on dance as a space of agentivity, through work on the practice of twerking.

Lila Neutre’s work is regularly presented in France and abroad, notably at the Biennale de l’image possible (Liège), at the Institut français du Kansaï (Kyoto) and at various events and festivals such as Nuit Blanche, Kyotographies, Rencontres internationales de la photographie and Marseille Provence 2013.

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