I am a visual artist whose practice revolves primarily around video, performance, installation, and collage. I am interested in the systems of belief and thought conveyed through our technical and media apparatuses. After graduating from the Work.Master program at HEAD – Genève in 2013, I initiated a research project on the mythologies surrounding artificial intelligence, which notably led me to California, where I met several key figures from Silicon Valley. This investigation resulted in a number of works: the video series Deep Blue Dream (2015–2016), lecture-performances such as Breaking the Internet (2016) and Relaxing Data (2015–2019), a publication (Artificial Death, Intelligence of Fear, 2016), my first solo exhibition of the same name at Kunsthaus Langenthal, as well as a theatre piece (Deep Blue Dream – Reload, 2016–2018), created in collaboration with the American artist Hunter Longe.
In 2017, during an artist residency in Warsaw, I discovered the existence of the invisible workers responsible for moderating social media content. The following year, I traveled to Manila to investigate this phenomenon under difficult conditions : both because of the challenge of accessing these workers and because of the visual violence of the moderated content itself. This journey gave rise to a series of works, including an exhibition at the Centre Culturel Suisse (Praying for My Haters, 2019), a publication of the same title, and several videos (Praying for My Haters, Manila Stories, Portrait en Sainte Lucie, Les Larmes blanches, Many Souls Trapped in One, 2018–2019).
Over time, my work has evolved toward a reflection on the affective power of images, grounded in the idea that our era is marked by an unprecedented level of exposure to them. I focus on analyzing their suggestive power, their performativity, and their political implications. Since 2020, I have 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, I collaborated with the artist Maria Guță. Together, we examined the influence of images on the construction of the self, the mechanisms of American-style soft power, 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 Portraits series, 2021–2023; Baby's Dilemma, 2023; Gesture of Ecstasy, 2024), as well as paintings (The 7 Ghosts of Iris, 2022; Delirium Garden, 2024).
I am currently developing my very first public artwork (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 project is scheduled for completion in 2027.
If you want more details about some works and what I am up to, please send me an email
contact at laurenhuret dot com
or check this website.
Some of my books (links) :
My book on Content Moderation and Cursed Imagery, published by the Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, designed by AMI, available on les presses du réel ! Here.
Geneva-based Éditions Clinamen published a book with a stupendous text by Pacôme Thiellement and my collages. You can find it here.
You can download here my book Artificial fear, Intelligence of death
Supporting/Fighting for :
Along with Tiphanie Blanc, Tatiana Rihs and Ramaya Tegegne, we were taking actions regarding the payment of art/cultural workers in Switzerland and beyond. Still active, check about the project's activities here.
With GARAGE, we were taking actions regarding the payment of artists in Geneva : here
The website for helping artist is HERE!
Here a video produced by Mamco about my series 'iPhone torture".
Exhibitions / Expositions
2026
FIVE YEARS, STUCK ON MY EYES
DDA Genève, Le Commun, Genève
Cur. Jill Gasparina
du 17.04.26 au 17.05.26
Swiss Art For Palestine
Centre d'art Halle Nord, Genève
Cur. Tania Al Farouki
du 24 au 29.03.26
Was wäre wenn? Vom Spekulieren und Handeln für die Zukunft
KornhausForum, Bern
cur. Nicolas Kerksieck
du 28.11.25 au 01.02.26
2025
Side Quest for the Real (avec Maria Guta)
Le Commun, Genève
cur. Samuel Wagen Magnon et Christian Bili
du 02 au 21.12.2025
CLIMATE FICTION, UN RÉCIT SUR LA COLLECTION DU FONDS CANTONAL D'ART CONTEMPORAIN
Musée de Carouge, Carouge
Cur. Jean-Rodolphe Petter
du 12.06 au 31.08.2025
PSOT NETEBRAS XUL
SOMAxMAMCO, Genève
Cur. équipe du MAMCO
du 05.06.25 au 07.09.25
Night pieces: a foreign body within (avec Maria Guta)
Building 16, Hangzhou
Cur. CHEN Min
du 16.05.25 au 17.07.25
2024
Night pieces: a foreign body within (avec Maria Guta)
Three Shadows Photography Center, Xiamen
Cur. CHEN Min
du 31.08.24 au 10.11.24
Manutensions
L'ARC, Le Creusot
Cur. Élise Girardot
du 04.10.24 au 18.01.25
Tainted Love (with Maria Guta)
Galerie SuperDakota, Bruxelles
Cur. Shesna Lyra
du 30.05.24 au 13.07.24
Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family (with Maria Guta)
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Cur. Melanie Bühler
du 01.06.24 au 20.10.24
La Scia del Monte ou les utopistes magnétiques (with Maria Guta)
MBAL, Le Locle
Cur. Federica Chiocchetti & Nicoletta Mongini
du 23.03.24 au 15.09.24
Vertigo, video scenarios of rapid changes
Fundazione Mast, Bologna
Cur. Urs Stahel
du 10.02.24 au 14.07.24
You're doing amazing, Sweetie / This is perfect, perfect, perfect (with Maria Guta)
Transmediale, Berlin
Cur. Transmediale team
du 31.01.24 au 14.04.24
Sortir le travail de sa nuit
CCC OD, Tours
Cur. Delphine Masson, Marine Rochard
du 16.02.24 au 01.09.24
Skin of a shapeshifter (with Maria Guta)
Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest
Cur. Cristina Vasilescu
du 23.11.23 au 02.03.24
PULSAR, Part II: The Secret Life of Us All
Verein IRMA Republic, Worblaufen
Cur. Laurent Schmid
du 12 au 13.01.24
2023
Oh, dear feelings (...) (with Maria Guta)
Hiflow, Genève
Cur. Sara Petrucci et Séverine Cattin
du 16.11.2 au 31.01.23
There is no perfect spell
Chronus Art Center x HEK, Shanghai
Cur. BI Xin
du 14.09 au 31.12.23
I want you to believe in things that you cannot (solo with Maria Guta)
Cinema Europa, Calea Mosilor, Bucharest
Cur. Suprainfinit gallery
16.11.23
Out of Office
Medienwerkstatt Wien, Vienne
Cur. The Golden Pixel Cooperative
du 06 au 27.10.23
Hydra, Or The Many Headed AI
Live In Your Head, Genève
Cur. Giulia Bini
du 29.09 au 28.10.23
Swiss Art awards 2023 (avec Maria Guta)
Art Basel, Messe Basel, Hall 1.1
Cur. OFC
du 12 au 18.06.23
Love stories (double trouble) (avec Maria Guta)
Espace 3353, Genève
Cur. Julie Marmet & Vincente Lesser
du 24.06 au 11.08.23
Le soleil se lève quand les paupières se ferment (performance)
Villa Bernasconi, Genève
Cur. Marie-ève Knoerle
le 06 et 07.07.23
2022
Art au Centre
Halle nord, Genève
cur. Garance Chabert
du 08.12.22 au 05.03.23
Et les corps sont dehors, L'hypnose du satellite (performance)
FRAC Grand Large, Dunkerque
cur. Claire Hoffmann
le 26.11.22
REFRESH X Fantoche, The Soothsayings of Iris, (avec Maria Guta)
Festival Fantoche, Baden
cur. Maike Thies, ZhdK
du 06 au 11.09.22
The seven ghosts of Iris (avec Maria Guta)
Smallville, Neuchâtel
cur. R.Loda, S.Verdon, F. Boschung, C. Pellaux
du 04.11 au 03.12.22
1833 : une jeune fille, une machine et leur amitié
Centre d'art Imatge/Image
cur. Ida Soulard
du 19.11.22 au 18.02.23
House of mirrors : Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm
HmKv, Dortmund
cur. Inke Arns, Francis Hunger, Marie Lechner
du 09.04 au 31.07.22
Satellite Hypnosis, performance
Can, Neuchâtel
cur. CAN
le 19.03.22
Parallels, Part 1 : Astral border avec Maria Guta
Can, Neuchâtel
cur. CAN
du 27.02 au 03.04.22
TSCHÜÜSS FESTIVAL Artists'films continuous screenings
Centre culturel Suisse, Paris
cur. Claire Hoffmann
du 06 au 24.02.22
Sélection Prix Mobilière 2022
Foire Art Genève, Palexpo
cur. Ismene Wyss
du 03 au 06.03.2022
2021
Refresh
Zürich University of the Art, Zürich
cur. Maike Thies
du 10 au 13.11.21
AvaTourismus
Kunstverein Mañana Bold e. V.
cur. Ellen Wagner
du 11 au 21.11.2021
Souriez! Les émotions au travail
Musée d'art de joliette, Québec
cur. Maud Jacquin, Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre
du 22.10 au 09.01.2022
Joyfully waiting
Satellite Hypnosis (online)
cur. Nathalie Rebholz
01.08.21
The soothsayings of Iris (avec Maria Guta)
prix Pax art médiatique suisse, Hek
cur. Boris Magrini
du 09.06 au 15.08.21
Lémaniana
Centre d'art contemporain de Genève
cur. Andrea Bellini, Jill Gasparina, Mohamed Almusibli, Stéphanie Moisdon
du 24.03 au 15.08.2021
Le supermarché des images
Redbrick museum, Beijing
cur. Marta Ponsa, Emmanuel Alloa
du 29.05 au 01.08.2021
Spatial affairs
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
cur. Giulia Bini
du 29.04 au 27.06.21
Net encounters,THE CREATURE
Hek, Bâle
cur. Boris Magrini
du 01.01 au 31.01.21
2020
Swiss Art Award (online)
Reporté en ligne
du 01.10 au 31.12.20
Interval of attention (online-ongoing)
The soothsayings of Iris (avec Maria Guta)
Rokolektiv, Bucharest
01.10.2020
FitArt (online-ongoing)
Galerie Roehrs&Boetsch, Zurich
cur. Nina Roehrs
01.07.20
Durst
Kunstraum Niederoessteriech
cur. Alice Wirlke
01.07. au 14.08.20
User walk with me (online performance)
The Photographer's gallery, Londres
cur. Jon Uriarte, Marco de Mutiis
01.07.20
Kimye's feed (online)
Hek, Bâle
cur. Boris Magrini
du 12.05 au 17.05.20
Human Services
La Vitrine, Limoges
cur. Franck Bauchard, Jean Gilbert
du 20.02.2020 au 07.06.2020
Prophecies of the Noosphere (solo)
Galerie Roehrs&Boetsch, Zürich
cur. Nina Roehrs
23.01 au 29.02.2020
Le Supermarché des images
Jeu de Paume, Paris
cur. Marta Ponsa, Peter Szendy, Emmanuel Alloa
10.02 au 07.06.2020
2019
Link in bio
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
cur. Anika Meier, Aram Bartholl
16.12.19 au 15.03.2020
Les multiples voix des indiennes
Live In Your Head, Genève
cur. Alexander Gence et Julie Robiollel
16.01 au 22.02.2020
Relaxing data (performance)
Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen
cur. Tomke Braun
07.11.19
Études sur l'empathie
Fondation Ricard, Paris
cur. Charlotte Laubard
02.12.2019 au 22.01.2020
Gallery delivery
All over Berlin
cur. Sebastian Schmieg
06 au 15 09.19
Relaxing data
Villa du Parc, Annemasse,
cur. Garance Chabert
21.09.19
Spiral mind, chaos obviously
No Moon, New York
art. Viktor Timofeev
05.07.19
Speed show
Internet cafe, Berlin
cur. Aram Barthol & Anika Meier
05.07.2019
Computer grrrls
Mu, Eindhoven
cur. Marie Lechner et Inke Arns
20.07.2019 au 06.10.2019
Hidden Bar
Messe Platz, Art Basel
cur. Alice Wilke, Judith Kakon, Hannah Weinberger
12.06 au 16.06.2019
Chasing ... on social media (talk)
Pioneer Works, New York
cur. Tommy Martinez
14.06.19
The dead Web
Le Commun, Genève
cur. Nathalie Bachand
23.05 au 02.06.19
Praying for my haters (solo)
Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
cur. Claire Hoffmann
02.02 au 28.04.19
Praying for my lovers (solo)
Hek, Basel
cur. Boris Magrini
20.02.19
Computer grrrls
La Gaîté lyrique
cur. Marie Lechner et Inke Arns
13.03.2019 au 14.07.2019
Le ciel, l'eau, les dauphins, la vierge, les flics, le sang des nobles, l'ONU, l'Europe, les casques bleus, Facebook, Twitter
Forde, Genève
cur. Roxanne Bovet
08.02 au 17.03.19
Prix La Mobilière
Foire Art Genève, Palexpo
cur. Viviane Mörmann
30.01.19
Computer grrrls
HMKV, Dortmund, Germany
cur. Marie Lechner et Inke Arns
27.10.2018 au 24.02.2019
2018
Persona non data, "Relaxing data"
La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
cur. Marie Lechner
30.11.2018
Bösiness
création vidéo pour Philippe Wicht
Théâtre de l'Arsenic, Lausanne
du 22.10 au 25.10.18
Algorithmic Lifestyle
Roehrs & Boetsch Gallery, Zurich
cur. Nina Roehrs
du 31.08 au 10.10.18
Extime
Espace Live In Your Head, Genève
cur. Charlotte Laubard
20.09.18
La France éléctronique
Biennale du Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
cur. Jill Gasparina
21.09.18
Inauguration Opening nights
Résidence La Becque, La Tour-de-Peilz
cur. Luc Meier
du 14.09 au 16.09.18
Artist talk "on cursed imagery",
Mabini Project Residency, Manila,
cur. Roy Voragen
13.07.18
Frozen facial features
Hek, LISTE, Bâle
cur. Boris Magrini
du 11.06 au 17.06.18
« De l'archéologie des médias », conférence
avec Yves Citton et Emmanuel Guez
Fondation Bodmer, Genève
01.06.18
Frozen facial features
Post-disaster residencies, Marseille
cur. Paul Paillet et Jonathan Vidal
12.05.18
Wages for Wages against
Espace d'art Tunnel Tunnel, Lausanne
du 09.03 au 11.03.18
Wages for Wages against
Centre culturel Suisse, Paris
cur. Rosa Brux
du 20.04 au 03.06.18