Zoe Williams (born in Salisbury, 1983) lives and works between Marseille and London. Her practice incorporates a wide range of media including installation, moving image, ceramics, drawing, and performance, and is often collaborative in its process and outcome. Her work explores the non-verbal means of communication and physical behaviours, which connect the unspoken, often seductive intentions underlying human relations. She creates sensory experiences, both hedonistic and penetrating in nature, that shift towards the viewer. This slow exchange between the object and its viewer thus puts into motion a stimulating and intimate dialogue around sex, power and desire placing the spectator into the uncomfortable position of voyeur. Through her work, Williams wishes to provoke conversations around the pressures of power, the politics of sex and the economics of production. She is represented by the Ciaccia Levi Gallery, Paris-Milan, and has worked with a range of international institutions including: Le Parvis scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénée; Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva; CAPC, Bordeaux; Fraeme, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille. Her work is part of the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine La Méca collection in France and Collezione Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy.
