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Born in 1981, is a Swiss-French photographer based in Lausanne. After studying philosophy, literature, and cinema, he trained in photography in Vevey. He has exhibited internationally and published six books. Winner of the HSBC Photography Award in 2009, he has shown work at the Musée de l’Elysée and the Rencontres d’Arles with the project H+. In 2022, he presented Vivants at the Pully Museum and Paris Photo, where he won the Ruinart Prize. He teaches photography at ECAL and is a founding member of the MAPS agency.
H+, the third stage of the SuperNatural exhibition cycle, is a visual—and visionary—exploration of transhumanism, an intellectual movement that seeks to enhance the human body through science and technology.
From the everyday use of technologies that have already become integral parts of our lives, such as pacemakers or smartphones, to the fantasies surrounding the transcendence of the physical and mortal human condition, the series by the Swiss artist traces—across Switzerland, Russia, France, and the Czech Republic—the people, objects, and core concepts of this movement, subtly revealing its complexities and shadowy areas.
Matthieu Gafsou’s images unveil not only the boldest… frontiers and greatest paradoxes of technological progress but also the existential dilemmas posed by the transhumanist vision: will we ever be ready to abandon the physical body in favor of an existence increasingly hybridized with machines? How might we reconceive our lives if, in a post-human future, we could indefinitely postpone our appointment with death? 
