Roubaud (b. 1952, Mexico City) grew up between Egypt, Portugal, Greece, South Africa, and Canada before settling in France in 1972. She studied philosophy at Paris 8 in Vincennes–Saint-Denis, with a focus on Wittgenstein. From 1979 on, Roubaud devoted herself to the pursuit of photography alongside written works.

Roubaud utilized experimental printing techniques that rendered each print unique. High-key prints were constructed from multiple exposures, abstract manipulations of light, extensive burning and dodging, the use of a light pencil, and, sometimes, colored pencil, staining, and tinting. 

The Canadian artist was embedded within the Parisian scene of writers, artists, and filmmakers that included the post-New Wave filmmaker Jean Eustache. Roubad photographed Eustache and was the subject of his film Les Photos d’Alix (Alix’s Pictures). Alix Cléo Roubaud died of a pulmonary embolism in 1983 at the age of thirty-one.

Works by Alix Cléo Roubaud are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; Bibliothèque de Lyon; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris; and Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine, Normandy.

The exhibition runs until October 25.