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In 2004, La Ribot moved to Geneva, Switzerland, with her then partner, Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin. In this city, she contributes to the founding of Art / Action, department of teaching and research on live arts at HEAD, Haute Ecole d'Art et Design, which she co-directed until 2008. During this
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with the dancer and choreographer Blanca Calvo, a company that aimed to experience with choral choreographies and diverse narratives alongside original music. The group dissolved in 1989, but the work of all of them, today recognized artists, left a mark in the
Spanish 80s scene. In 1991, she began
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Festival in Berlin dedicated to La Ribot her first retrospective in 2017. That same year, she began working as an artist at the Max
Estrella Gallery in Madrid (after the closing of the Soledad Lorenzo Gallery). In December 2017, they inaugurated their first exhibition together with
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360:(2016), the fifth series of distinguished pieces, is a trio for her, Juan Loriente and Thami Manekehla, in which the presence of a large installation in the center of the space forces the public to wander in the dark, one centimeter away from the interpreters.
279:(1991), but it is in 2000 that she began to record camera in hand, with sequence shots, developing the concept of corps-opérateur (operating body). These approaches have influenced many of her later works, such as the video-installation
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311:(2010). This first great installation with her fetish object, the wooden chair, foldable and popular, involved once again the viewer, with his body in motion and, as in
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