For 10 years now, the Franco-Swiss photographer has been working with the human body, producing images of meticulous, poetic aestheticism, and has made her own and that of  other a focus of research with infinite variations.
 

From her very first images, in which she portrays herself as perhaps a mystic with multiple powers in a series of captivating self-portraits. A shaman, having influence with sorcery, divination, light, and able to see the unknown or lost.  The body is the centerpiece of a of this chiaroscuro universe. A body that dances sways, capsizes, and bends. A body on the move, a body that jolts, flies away, a body that sinks , resists, a body that is cramped, at times body-to-body. Curled up or disproportionate,  a point of imbalance in the photograph rigorously worked in square format.
 

To the  constant of body she adds  the interdependence of the environment. Omnipresent, nature is not only the backdrop for these bodies. In both dark hues and bright light, the changing silhouettes delicately and subtly invite us to rethink our universe. By placing these beings on a seesaw, the artist explores the possibilities of a place and probes our connection to the elements. Water, air and earth inhabit each composition, while fire is found in the incandescent hues of moving skin and hair.
 

Emilie Möri takes the body as her medium, exploring, feeling, sculpting our emotions. The curves become organic to integrate our relationship with nature, a privileged creative space for the photographer, while the movements of the dancing body question the transience of time. Bodies capsize and twirl, the moment is unique and no longer exists, magic is at work.
 

If the body is central to Emilie Möri's work - to the point of making this rule an unconditional formal element of her work - particular attention is paid to faces, without ever showing them. Everything starts from there, as if from the spirit…
 

Although many of her compositions are self-portraits, she is the object without ever being the subject. Her visual allegories allow viewers to project themselves and become their own characters in the photograph. Whether playing with mirrors, masking flowers or working with shadows and transparency, the artist's poetic, sometimes funny and offbeat narration produces silent, enigmatic images that allow the viewer to listen to their own inner music.
 

By turns an invitation to meditation and reflection, or crossed by emotion, the micro-fictions that emerge from Emilie Möri's journeys into the imagination have this power: to start from the intimate and blossom in the eyes of others. Her subtle style succeeds in the delicate challenge of making interior landscapes emerge in the setting, if not vice versa.
 

Emilie Möri's images are based on an inversion of reference points and the invention of another reality. If we sense the photographer's obsession with the line - including the horizon, which is very present - the precision of the frame and the ultra-minimalist compositions, her tour de force consists in capturing a form of the unspeakable, which escapes all pre-established rules. Her photographic language is that of the interstice, in which the ordinary and the extra-ordinary coexist, giving the world a multi-readability.
 

At once tranquil and destabilizing, the power of her digital collages is at work, somewhere between surrealist fable and dreamlike dream. We are drawn in, and with her veils she reveals and absorbs us. 
 

Her images may first come to life as watercolors on a notepad, the artist never ceases to workon the exacting colorimetry of her photographs, going so far as to completely recolor the architecture of a place. Her palette is dense and actively participates in redrawing the contours of a world, as if the one in which Emilie Möri has been evolving for ten years now, already seemed too narrow for her inexhaustible curious gaze.

-Marina B.