Isabelle Ha Eav Ruiz

Isabelle Ha Eav Ruiz is a French photographer who works with the history of photography, exploring the materiality of the image through 19th-century processes such as gum bichromate, in dialogue with contemporary experiments that mix photography and painting. She trained in engraving and then photography, notably at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles.

Through her work she explores presence and absence, imprint, erasure and memory. Her images have been exhibited in international art centres and museums, including the Kunst Haus Wien, the Camille Claudel Museum and the Siao-Long Cultural Center in Taiwan.

At House of Lucie Athens she presented Unveiling, a work in progress in which the Ilissos River runs through the series, blocked, surviving and sometimes flowing, as she questions our relationship to landscape, territory and collective memory. She also led a workshop there with Stéphane Noel.