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Michelle Aubert is a Mexican visual artist whose practice centers on photography as a medium for emotional and perceptual inquiry. She lives and works between Mexico City and Paris, navigating the space between introspection and visual experimentation.
Aubert’s work explores the tension between reality and perception, emotion and form , translating invisible states of mind into luminous visual fragments. Trained at the University of the Arts London, she began her artistic practice in 2020, experimenting with unconventional tools and processes that challenge traditional notions of photographic representation.
In 2021, she held her first solo exhibition at Galería Casa Terra in Mexico City, where her piece Golden (from the series Pandemic Illusion) was highlighted by ArtFinder among its selection of outstanding emerging artists. That same year, her work ON was included in Un nudo en la garganta, a charity auction organized by Fundación Origen, alongside renowned contemporary figures such as Pantaleón Ruiz, Brian Nissen, and Betsabeé Romero.
Her second solo exhibition, Close but Far (2024), presented at Galería Unión in Mexico City, marked a turning point in her visual journey, a symbolic series that explores emotional rebirth and the reconstruction of self through fragmentation. More recently, she participated in Temporal, a collective exhibition organized by Trastienda Machete Gallery in Guadalajara, where she presented two large-scale photographic works and an audiovisual installation.
Aubert’s upcoming projects include presentations at Swab Barcelona and new exhibitions in Paris and Mexico, continuing her exploration of perception, emotion, and the delicate architecture of human experience across different mediums and contexts.
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Michelle belongs to a generation that witnessed the silent revolution of the image, a world that shifted from the tangible to the digital, from intimacy to exposure.
Early in her career, she navigated the world of fashion and communication, becoming one of the first voices to bridge creative expression and digital influence in Mexico. Through her collaborations with emerging designers and the founding of an early concept store, Aubert explored how beauty and identity could be constructed through images.
Years later, during the stillness of the pandemic, her gaze turned inward. Immersed in the art world, she recognized how her life had been shaped by surfaces, roles, and expectations, reflections that rarely allowed her to confront the unconscious. That realization became a turning point: a moment of rupture and rebirth. She chose to pause, to observe, and to reconnect with the fragments that had always existed within her, unseen.
Those fragments now take the form of photographs, visual reflections that invite the viewer to stop, to breathe, and to construct their own meaning.
Through her work, Aubert explores the duality of human nature: control and surrender, clarity and distortion, the ordinary and the mystical. She dismantles the obvious to reveal, through fragments, the imperfect and the extraordinary hidden within the everyday.
In series such as Illusions in Pandemic and Senses, she transforms common materials into perceptual experiences that blur the boundary between the visible and the invisible. Her creative process becomes a space of absolute freedom , a dialogue between emotion and matter, where there is no need to justify what is seen or felt.
“The source of my work is the unconscious that each person hides, starting with mine.”
