Biography

Elsa Brès was born in 1985 and lives in Bréau, in the Cévennes. She graduated from Le Fresnoy - studio national d’arts contemporains in 2017 and from the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture in 2012 - where she taught architecture and landscape theory. Her films and installations focus on forces of resistance in contemporary socio-natural landscapes. Combining long-term research with experimentation in narrative forms, her projects are rooted in the territories to which she is linked, in an approach that is increasingly open to collaboration.

After three films revolving around alternative narratives about water-related infrastructure projects (Stella50.4N1.5E - 2016, Love Canal - 2017, Sweat -2020), she is currently developing Les Sanglières, a film set in the rural French region where she lives that deals with wild boars as allies of struggle. This long-term project has given a number of installations along the way: Notes for les Sanglières (2021); Les Sanglières part3seq1&2 (2021); Hearing the riffle shots (2022); Connivences, Révolutions (2023). Her recent and up-coming exhibitions and screenings include: La Loge solo show (Bruxelles, 2023), transmediale (2022, 2021), State of Concept Athens (2022), Vdrome (2022), Cincinnati Contemporary art center (2022), MO.CO Panacée (2021), FID Marseille (2020, 2016), CRAC Occitanie (2020), Tënk (2021).