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.