Laurence Favre is an artist, filmmaker and researcher working with still and moving images – mostly analog – sounds and writings.
Favre’s research based work takes the shape of experimental and nonfiction films, installations and film performances, looking for ways of triggering epistemic changes through sensory perception. She creates poetic sound-and-image-driven spaces where temporalities are blurred, and conceptual binary opposition such as presence/absence, visibility/invisibility, memory/oblivion, still/moving, real/fictional, are diverted. Focusing on notions of de-centering and un-othering, she coined the concept of Expanded Spectropoetics for an Anarchive in the field of decolonial ecology.
Her work has been shown internationally in film festivals including Locarno film festival, Rotterdam IFFR, Hong Kong HKIFF, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Visions du Réel and others, in art spaces, as well as in informal spaces and in the frame of symposiums. She has been awarded several artist grants and residencies.
Laurence Favre has been invited as a visiting lecturer at art schools and universities including Geneva University, Freie Univesität Berlin, Kunsthochschule Kassel, ZHdK Zürich, and has worked as a research collaborator at Geneva University and as a scientific collaborator at ZHdK. She is an active member of the artist-run filmlab LaborBerlin, and a co-funder of SPECTRAL, a platform for the creation and diffusion of Expanded Cinematic Arts.
Favre was born and grew up in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland) and lived in Colombia, Australia, Portugal, Germany and France. She speaks fluent french, spanish, english, portuguese and german.