Through the series 40 years 70 kg, showcased in Faire corps, Elea Jeanne Schmitter questions the notion of neutrality. Being a 40 years old white male weighing 70 kg is considered the universal average. This reference point creates a data-gap, as well as it establishes a form of symbolic violence. It conditions most of our everyday infrastructures and equipments, at the expense of the confort, health, security of those who do not fall in these predefined norms, to the point where it can sometimes endanger their lives.
Elea Jeanne Schmitter is a visual artist born in Auxerre in 1993. After her graduation at the University of Concordia in Montréal in 2018, she joins the school Kourtrajmé under the guidance of the artist JR in 2020.
Born in 1993 in Auxerre, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
EDUCATION
2020 Ecole Kourtrajmé, Art et Images, Montfermeil, France
2018 Bachelor Fine Arts Studio Arts, Photography Major, Concordia University, Canada
2014 Bachelor in European Law at Faculté Libre de Droit, France
SOLO EXHIBITION
2020 Exposition personnelle, L’Archipel, In Cadaqués International Photo Festival, Cadaqués, Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Faire Corps, curated by Camille Bardin, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
Photography is dead, Long Live photography! Candela Books + Gallery, VA, USA
Ecole Kourtrajmé, Art et Images x Château La Coste, France
The World Within, Photo Art Center Hangar, Belgium
2020
Workshop Jusqu’ici tout va bien, Palais de Tokyo, France
2019
Tirana Photo Festival, National History Museum, Albania
Sky High Skies, Transpace Gallery, IL, USA
Luftpost-Airmail, Kabawil E.V, Düsseldorf, Germany
Introspections, POPUP Gallery, Canada
Graduating Students Exhibition, FOFA & VAV Galleries, Canada
The Waste Land, Centre des Arts Actuels SKOL, Canada
2018
Photo as an object, Glass Gallery Concordia, Canada
Nature, Le Livart, Canada
Résonance, VAV Gallery, Canada
2017
Conversations, Artgang, Canada
Generations, VAV Gallery, Canada
RESIDENCIES
2021 Saisons Zéro/ Zerm, France
2020 Château La Coste, France
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Self, Loose The Film, USA
2020
Ecole Kourtrajme, Maison CF, France
Mexstiz, RevistaBalam, Argentine
2019
On Death, Kris Graves Projects, Humble Arts Foundation
Dust, Darkslide V, Canada
Issue 2, Figures de Style, Canada
Religion, Ideology and Violence, Issue 27, TheForum, Canada
Language, Volume 17.2 Issue 1, THE VOID, Canada
2018
Clicks, Darkslide VI, Canada
Substance, Volume 2, MESH MAG, Canada
2017
3am, Volume 15 Issue 1, THE VOID, Canada
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Group show curated by Camille Bardin
Faire Corps
10/21/2021 - 12/18/2021