Lauren Huret
Born in 1984
Lives and works in Geneva
Lauren Huret is an artist whose practice primarily revolves around video, performance, installation, and collage. She is interested in belief systems and modes of thought conveyed through our technical and media devices. A graduate of the Work.Master program at HEAD – Geneva in 2013, she soon initiated her first major research project on the mythologies surrounding artificial intelligence, which led her to California to meet key figures in Silicon Valley. This investigation gave rise to several works: the video series Deep Blue Dream (2015–2016), performance-readings such as Breaking the Internet (2016) and Relaxing Data (2015–2019), a publication (Artificial Death, Intelligence of Fear, 2016), her first solo exhibition of the same name at Kunsthaus Langenthal, as well as a play (Deep Blue Dream – Reload, 2016–2018, in collaboration with American artist Hunter Longe).
In 2017, during an artist residency in Warsaw, she discovered the existence of invisible workers tasked with moderating content on social networks. The following year, she traveled to Manila in the Philippines to investigate—under complex conditions due to both the difficulty of accessing these workers and the disturbing visual nature of the moderated content. This journey led to a series of works, including an exhibition at the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris (Praying for My Haters, 2019), a publication of the same name, and several videos (Praying for My Haters, Manila Stories, Portrait en Sainte Lucie, Les Larmes blanches, Many Souls Trapped in One, 2018–2019).
Gradually, her work shifted towards a reflection on the emotional impact of images, positing that our era is marked by an unprecedented exposure to them. She focuses on analyzing their suggestive power, performativity, and political significance. Since 2020, she has been exploring the notion of “healing” images through performances (L’Hypnose du Satellite, 2021–2022) and videos (L’Hypnose du Jardin, 2023). From 2020 to 2024, she collaborated with artist Maria Guță. Together, they explored the influence of images on self-construction, American-style soft power dynamics, media overexposure on social networks, and contemporary forms of identity manipulation. This collaboration resulted in several works: video installations (The Soothsayings of Iris, 2020; the series Les Portraits, 2021–2023; Baby’s Dilemma, 2023; Gesture of Ecstasy, 2024), as well as paintings (The 7 Ghosts of Iris, 2022; Delirium Garden, 2024).
She is currently developing her first Kunst am Bau project (Les schémas-biscuit du monde, 2024), recently selected for the École des Vernets in Geneva, in partnership with the Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain (FMAC). The completion is scheduled for 2027.