Elsa & Johanna — À propos — Slash Paris

Johanna Benaïnous (1991) and Elsa Parra (1990) are a duo of visual artists, photographers and directors. In 2016, they were noticed at Salon de Montrouge, ended up finalists of the HSBC Photography Award, and were nominated for the Révélations Emerige grant.

They met at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and received together the congratulations of the jury at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2015. They were guest artists at the Festival Circulation(s) 2017 and Festival Photo Saint Germain 2017. They won the 2nd Picto Fashion Award 2017, and got into the collections of Palais Galliera (Fashion Museum of Paris). In 2017, Galerie La Forest Divonne presents them for the first time in the Brussels space for the exhibition Kaléidoscope. In 2018, the FMAC (Paris Contemporary Art Municipal Fund) acquired the whole set of 88 portrait of the series A Couple of Them, made between 2014 and 2016. 36 of them are exhibited on the FMAC booth at FIAC 2018.