Performances
Lara Dâmaso
New creation 2023: installation, fabrics
15 Jun - 2 Jul 2023
15 Jun - 2 Jul 2023
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The body is the essential element in Lara Dâmaso's work. The artist explores the political, therapeutic and expressive potential of the voice, body movements and breathing being closely related to expressiveness and vocal power. Her work seeks to test the vibratory motif that moves through the body with movements.
Cries, their echoes, breathing and lamentation are explored at various moments in her performances.
Having worked with curtains for several years, she proposes a new installation for Move made up of suspended veils and sculptures of solidified fabric. The curtain motif, long used in theatre as an object that conceals and reveals, is used here as a scenographic element for a new performance and as a sculpture that shapes space. It acts as a tool that enables the transition from one state to another, revealing or obliterating space, underscoring the fluidity of exchanges and looks.
The production of fabrics is the result of an original collaboration between the artist and the Milanese fabric company, Vitelli.
Lara Dâmaso (1996, Biel/Bienne) is a Zurich-based artist and performer. After several years' intensive training in ballet and contemporary dance, Lara Dâmaso attended the Leipzig Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst where she studied art and media and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Her work has been presented in a variety of institutions, including the Gessnerallee theatre, Zurich (Switzerland), Krone Couronne, Biel/Bienne (Switzerland), Istituto Svizzero, Milan (Italy), Kunsthalle, Bern (Switzerland), MASI Lugano, (Switzerland), Kunsthaus Langenthal, (Switzerland), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (Switzerland), Kunsthalle Zurich (Switzerland), Theater Neumarkt, Zurich (Switzerland), Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (Switzerland), Plymouth Rock, Zurich (Switzerland), Centre Pasquart, Biel/Bienne (Switzerland). Lara Dâmaso is an associated artist of the Zurich Gessnerallee and is a member of the board of directors of the Lausanne Les Urbaines festival.
Where
Level –1
When
15 Jun - 2 Jul 2023
Lara Dâmaso, Echo Chambers, 2022,
Documentation : Guadalupe Ruiz