Greek and Swiss, Iseult Labote, was born in Geneva and studied Art History and political science at the University of Geneva. Her passion for the photography, revealed from the adolescence onwards, drove her to make several study trips abroad: she stayed in Athens, Florence, Rome, Moscow, New York and Singapore. Labote’s photographs are included in private and public collections in Switzerland, France, Italy, Greece, and the United States, including Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain (FCAC), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCO); Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva; the Greek National Bank; and the Contemporary Museum of Thessalonica, SMCA (State Museum of Contemporary Art), among others.
Iseult Labote’s photographs, created without any artificial intervention or staged set-up, explore the aesthetic of the contemporary industrial world. In the heart of transit locations, construction sites, warehouses, factories – locations permeated by temporality – the artist guides her attention towards the feeling of intense presence, which emanates from them. By freezing the materials, structures, and surfaces, Labote finds and brings forth the hidden poetry and sensuality stemming from abandonment and destruction.
Selected exhibitions:
2013 Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece, Adelina von Fürstenberg (curator)
2013 Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva
2013 KMA92 Contemporary Art, Berlin
2012 Artgenève, Simon Studer Art, Geneva
2011 Musée Rath, Geneva, Fabrice Gygi (curator)
2011 Simon Studer Art, Geneva
2010 Triennale de la Photographie, Geneva, Y&DC Gallery
2010 Simon Studer Art, collective with Richard Long, Avramidis, JR,…