Biography:
Laetitia Heisler (b. 1991, Toulon, France) is a French-German visual artist based in Northern Germany. Working primarily with experimental analogue photography, her practice investigates the limits of photographic truth through material and process-based experimentation in the darkroom.
Using multiple exposures, chemical alterations, unconventional printing techniques, and the incorporation of organic matter such as menstrual blood, Heisler explores how images both reveal and distort intimacy, memory, and perception. Her work unsettles notions of transparency and authenticity, treating the photographic surface as a site of fiction, transformation, and resistance.
Rooted in the legacy of Pictorialism and expanded through contemporary feminist and conceptual frameworks, her practice creates layered encounters that invite introspection, confrontation, and critical engagement. She divides her time between her studio, darkrooms across Europe, and site-specific experiments that connect the material processes of image-making with lived environments.
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