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Blade For Babes

Blade for Babes is a reflection on beauty and innocence. The project aims to question our vision of the gender and the dictates that we impose on women and men in our modern western society. Fascinated by certain symbols, I wanted to image a satirical criticism of certain codes and clichés that we are still struggling to question.

I am talking about the superficiality of certain injunctions that continue to feed taboos, and the psychological ill-being that threatens every girls and boys, every women and men, behind the violence that society imposes on us. The taboos that I myself lived and still live, which no longer make sense in our time, which hides a lot of unhappiness and misunderstanding in young people. Faced with our body, with our «duties» as women or men, our physical and psychological pain in the face of this constant pressure. And it is this violence, which I would like to reverse, by showing that resistance is possible, and that it is already coming to life. It is finally starting to come to life through feminist movements around the world, with strikes, demonstrations and other acts of force in the face of our patriarchal society. 

I first wondered about certain everyday objects, which may seem trivial, but which basically have a symbolic charge that is no longer questioned. Whether it’s the kitchen knife, or the gloss, up to certain commercially gendered children’s products. Each time in a so-called feminine and gentle aesthetic to each time divert objects from their initial connotation and thus create discomfort.

Serving

“SERVING” is a photographic documentary project about the ballroom scene in Switzerland (LGBTQIA+ underground culture created by black people in reaction to the predominantly white beauty and fashion competitions).

It all started when I met Zion, a member of the Lausanne collective 4311, which organizes queer parties and balls. After chatting with him, I first offered to help out as a photographer to document the events. By taking part in them, I realized that the scene is still young in Switzerland. It has become much more active since 2021, thanks in particular to the 4311 collective, and is gaining members by the day. It’s in the midst of this effervescence and exchange that the desire to develop a photographic series around this scene and its players became obvious to me. 

As a queer person myself, I know how important it is to represent people of all identities, races and genders. Something I don’t think happens enough in Switzerland, and something I can and want to be part of. To document and highlight the people who work for the stage in Switzerland. 

Margaux Corda

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1994. Graduated from écal (école cantonale d’art de Lausanne) with a Bachelor in visual communication, specialized in photography in 2018. Worked in Paris with Alain Costa and currently working between Lausanne and Paris as a freelance.

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Lausanne / Paris, Vaud

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Exhibitions

  • 2024 "Quand les images prennent soin", Centre de la photographie Genève, Switzerland
  • Nuit des images x near. , Photo Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2023Near. x Musée d’art de Pully, collective exhibition, Pully, Switserland
  • 2022PhMuseumDays 2022 "Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow" Collective Exhibition in Piazza Minghetti, Bologna, Itlay
  • 2021Photo Schweiz 2021, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2020Queer Festival 2020, Breaking Gender Stereotypes - Photo Exhibition, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2019Luxembourg Art Week, with Artscape Contemporary Art Luxembourg gallery, Luxembourg
  • Foto Festival Lenzburg, Searching Beauty, Lenzburg, Switzerland
  • 2018Helsinki Photo Festival 2018, ‘From Helsinki with Love’ - Winner Open Call, Finland
  • Les Rencontres d’Arles Voies OFF, The Family Of No Man, Cosmos Book, France

Publications

  • 2024Fisheye Magazine - Les Coups de coeur #499
  • 2022 Le T Magazine portfolio publication
  • 2019Perception, exhibition catalogue for the month of photography Roma, Millepiani gallery
  • 2018Fantasma Inheritance, self published photobook
  • 2017Novembre x ecal, Novembre magazine special edition with ecal students