About
Elsa Faudé is a French photographer-author based between Barcelona (Spain)and Toulouse(France). Her production combines photography with video, installation and literature, at the borders of documentary and poetical approaches. Graduated in Fine Art Photography from the University of Los Angeles California Extension and the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya, holder of different Masters of Arts in Fine Arts, Photography and Literature from the Polytecnical University of Valencia, the University of Barcelona and the University Toulouse II - Jean-Jaurès, she realizes works where her wandering overcomes the frontiers between the environment, art and body. Indeed, she explores the photographic concept of transit to understand the construction mecanisms of identity, gender, memory, cultural territories and personal mythologies. Through processes of alteration, she converts photography as a critical tool to wonder about the dominant structures of the collective imagination, exploring the counter-cultural representations. Utopian journeys, exile roads, physical metamorfosis inhabit these surreal visions,these odes dedicated to the marginalized, the forgotten, at the edge of dream and reality. In 2018, she obtained the UCLA award art competition honour mention. In 2024, she received an accésit prize at the Luminic festival artists call, the Mark Grosset-SAIF award at Les Promenades photographiques, the honorable mention of the Julia Margaret Cameron awards in fine arts category by Fotonostrum. Also, her work has been selected for the competition prizes Descubrimientos by PhotoEspaña and MPB-On stage photography by Photodocparis.
COMPETITIONS JURIES
October 2024/ Selection for the Closer session of La Nuu International Fotofestival (Riuu – Spain)
September 2024/ Shortlisted for the MPB award by On stage photography –Photodocparis – closing of Les Rencontres d’Arles
September 2024/ Selection for the portfolio reviews session by Bialystok Interphoto Festival (Warsow – Poland)
March 2024/ Selection for the competition prize Descubrimientos by PhotoEspaña
March 2024/ Selection for the portfolio reviews by PhotoEspaña
February 2024/ Selection for the Portrait Awards 2024 Competition Gallery by Lens Culture
PRIZES
September 2024/ 24th Julia Margareth Cameron honorable mention by Fotonostrum (Barcelona – Spain)
July 2024/ prize Mark Grosset- SAIF at the festival Les Promenades photographiques in Blois (France)
April 2024/ prize accésit of the Festival Luminic in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona- Spain)
Sept. 2018/ U.C.L.A. award art competition Honor Mention
EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS
July- August 2025 (to come)/ Individual exhibition at Les promenades photographiques (Blois – France)
July 2025 (to come)/ Collective exhibition – Julia Margaret Cameron at Fotonostrum (Barcelona – Spain)
October-November 2024/ Collective exhibition at Fotoartebarcelona (Barcelona-Spain)
June-July 2024/ Collective exhibition in Blanca gallery at the Festival Luminic in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona – Spain)
June 2024/ Photographic video projection at the Festival Luminic in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona – Spain)
June 2024/ Collective exhibition in Artokgallery (Rotterdam- Netherlands)
March 2024/ Collective exhibition at the Festival Artelfest in Arteria gallery in Barcelona (Spain)
June 2018/ Collective exhibition in “UCLA Westwood” in Los Angeles (USA)
2015 – 2016/ Collective exhibition “Trib’art” at the art center “Alban-Minville” in Toulouse (France)
PUBLICATIONS
Fotonostrum magazine special, “24th Julia Margareth Cameron award”, september 23th 2024, page 69.
WRITINGS
March 2023/ In transit: Approaching dissenting cartographies through artistic photographic practice.
Universitat Politècnica de València.
http://hdl.handle.net/10251/192578
Sept. 2021/ Article “Transmission and reappropriation of the trauma of the Spanish Civil War in contemporary art” in the academic review “Polifónica”, n°2
http://Polifonica_02.pdf
Oct. 2020/ Imaginaries, representations, and legacies from the Spanish Civil War to the present day: Female archetypes in popular arts and Fine Arts.
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
Nov. 2011/ The identity metamorfosis of the Catalan surrealism in Joan Miró’s and Josep Foix‘s artworks.
Université Toulouse II – Jean-Jaurès.
Sept. 2007/The rhythm of the world: Cubism, Orphism, lines, and music. 2007, Google book, 440 pages. Université Toulouse II – Jean-Jaurès.
https://books.google.es/books/about/Le_rythme_du_monde.html? id=6uzEtAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
EDUCATION
2024/ Posgrado de creación y reflexión
Instituto d’Estudis de Fotográfics de Catalunya de Barcelona
2024/ Posgrado de fotografía publicitaria y corporativa
Instituto d’Estudis de Fotográfics de Catalunya de Barcelona
2024/ Formación en diseño y gestión de proyectos culturales y artísticos
Centro de innovación y formación de Hospitalet de LLobregat
2023/ Diploma of specialisation of the Master’s in Photography, Arts and Technique
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
2023/ Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at the School of Fine Arts
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
2019/ Certificate degree of Fine Art Photography
University of Los Angeles California Extension
2012/ CAPES
Master’s Degree in Teaching French language and literature
University Toulouse II – Jean-Jaurès
2011/ Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature and Arts
University Toulouse II – Jean-Jaurès/ Universidad de Barcelona
2007/ Bachelor of Arts in Literature
2004/ Literary preparatory class
Lycée Saint-Sernin – Toulouse