For Eléa-Jeanne Schmitter, the image is at once the result, the revealer and the objector of structures of authority and power. Through her series, which combine photographs, installations and performances, she puts what is socially accepted as "the norm" to the test of the intimate. With Daddy's Baby (2017), she immerses herself in the dating sites of young women and wealthy men; the installation Blue Brian (2018) questions the hegemony of the white cube on the viewer's experience; Leidenschaften (2019) deconstructs the Western quest for transcendence.
Elea Jeanne Schmitter is a French visual artist based in Paris. She graduated in 2018 from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 2020 she joined the Kourtrajmé School, Art and Images section, based in Montfermeil under the direction of Ladj Ly and the artist JR.
She is published in the book On Death published by Kris Graves Project and Humble Arts Foundation and in the photographic magazine RevistaBalam. Her photographic and installation work has been shown in various exhibition spaces in North America and Europe, such as the SKOL Centre for Contemporary Arts, Livart, FOFA Gallery and at the Palais de Tokyo for the exhibition "Jusqu'ici tout va bien" in September 2020. She is one of the photographers invited to the Festival In Cadaques 2020 and one of the winners of the PhotoBrussels Festival 2020 at the Hangar photo art centre in Brussels. She is one of the artists in the exhibition "FAIRE-CORPS" curated by Camille Bardin, winner of the AICA prize, at Galerie ParisB. She is the winner of the Mentor 2021 Prize. She is one of the 8 artists participating in the Saison Croisée France-Portugal project launched by the French Institute alongside the Underdogs Gallery, which she will carry out in Capbreton in New Aquitaine. Elea Jeanne Schmitter is currently presenting her first solo show at the Centquatre, Paris until 27 February 2022.