About
Elsa Faudé is a French filmmaker and 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 of 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 vagrancy fosters a geopoetical vision of territories, transcending the boundaries between body, environment and art. Indeed, her photographic wandering is a way of exploring the construction mecanisms of identity resistances through feminine narratives, memory exploration and immersion into the inconscious. Through processes of alteration and reveal, she converts photography as a critical tool to wonder about the dominant structures of the collective imagination, exploring the counter-cultural representations. Her surreal visions, inhabited by utopian journeys and metamorphoses, are dedicated to the marginalized and forgotten. 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, MPB-On stage photography by Photodocparis and the Emerging Woman Artist Award - Artprize Fall 2024 - by Artstohearts project.
SELECTIONS AND COMPETITIONS JURIES
Dec 2024/ Emerging Woman Artist Award: Artprize FALL 2024 curated by Arts to Hearts Projects
Dec 2024/ Les rencontres de la photographie Face à la mer – workshops and portfolio reviews (Tanger – Morroco)
Oct 2024/ Closer by La Nuu International Fotofestival (Riuu – Spain)
Sept 2024/ Shortlisted for the MPB award by On stage photography –Photodocparis
closing of Les rencontres d’Arles
Sept 2024/ Bialystok Interphoto Festival portfolio reviews (Warsow – Poland)
March 2024/Descubrimientos by PhotoEspaña
Feb 2024/ Portrait Awards 2024 Competition Gallery by Lens Culture
PRIZES
Jan 2025/ The curator’s choice of the exhibition upside/down by PH21 Gallery
Sept 2024/ 24th Julia Margaret Cameron honorable mention by Fotonostrum (Barcelona – Spain)
July 2024/ prize Mark Grosset- SAIF at Les Promenades photographiques (Blois- France)
April 2024/ prize accésit of the Luminic Festival in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona- Spain)
Sept. 2018/ UCLA award art competition Honor Mention
EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS
July 2025 (to come)/Group exhibition – Julia Margaret Cameron at Fotonostrum (Barcelona – Spain)
March 2025/ Virtual group exhibition – Emerging Woman Artist Award – organized by Arts to hearts projects and curated by Cohle gallery
Feb-March 2025/ Group exhibition “Upside/Down ” at PH21 gallery (Budapest, Hungary)
Jan- Feb 2025/ Group exhibition at Galeria Origen (Madrid- Spain)
Dec 2024-Jan 2025/Group exhibition at Fucar22 art gallery (Madrid – Spain)
Oct-Nov 2024/ Group exhibition at Fotoartebarcelona (Barcelona-Spain)
June-July 2024/ Group exhibition in Blanca gallery at the Festival Luminic (Sant Cugat del Vallès- Spain)
June 2024/ Photographic video projection at the Festival Luminic (Sant Cugat del Vallès- Spain)
June 2024/ Group exhibition in Artokgallery (Rotterdam- Netherlands)
March 2024/ Group exhibition at the Festival Artelfest in Arteria gallery in Barcelona (Spain)
June 2018/ Group exhibition in “UCLA Westwood” in Los Angeles (USA)
2015 – 2016/ Group exhibition “Trib’art” at the art center “Alban-Minville” in Toulouse (France)
PUBLICATIONS
Dec 2024/ Altiba9 – issue 17 Print magazine, limited edition, printed in London.
Sept 2024/Fotonostrum magazine special, “24th Julia Margaret 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
2025/ 2ndo de Diploma en Cinematografía
Escuela de cinema Bande à Part – Barcelona
2025/ Posgrado de creación y reflexión
Instituto d’Estudis Fotográfics de Catalunya de Barcelona
2024/ Posgrado de fotografía publicitaria y corporativa
Instituto d’Estudis 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