Zoe Metra is a visual artist born in Lyon in 1997. In 2021 she graduated from Econale Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Lyon. She now lives and works between Paris and Athens. Since then her work focuses on the creation of portraits in a variety of media. In her work, she challenges reality by portraying real characters who flirt with fiction through reinvented personal mythologies. In her practice, she refers to childhood and adolescence as mental spaces to be re-explored and traversed. Through films, photographs and installations, she assembles emblematic elements of 2010s visual culture to create narrative universes that deviate from their initial readings, using recognizable objects or spaces such as puzzles or playgrounds, which she displaces into parallel worlds through her voice, the narrative she affixes to them, or the images she associates with them. These works are retreats, rooms, for marginal and strange characters, too sensitive to expose themselves to reality. In them, she says, she gives a voice to the unseen, to those who hide within ourselves. By fictionalizing objects and distorting familiar spaces, she creates a disturbance, a thrill, confronting viewers with their own troubles. Her work has been exhibited at Sissi Club (Marseille), Monopole (Lyon), Villa Belleville (Paris), Hua International(Berlin), at Le point commun (CranGevrier,Annecy) Grand Palais Ephémère(Paris), Garage Mü(Paris), Okay Space(Athens), Tour Orion(Montreuil), at 3537 (Paris), Iesa(Paris),in conjunction with the Lyon Biennial 2022, Dragono(Paris), Æther(Sofia), Doc(Paris), Tarsia(Naples). She was in residence at Villa Beleville in 2023. She worked alongside Maria Papadimitriou on the Souzy Tros project in in Athens. She also worked with the Pane Per Poveri collective on various projects between Berlin and between Berlin and Venice. His curatorial experience began with Captain Stavros in 2023 for the Dandelion Seekers project.