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Lara Buffard is a French-Swiss performance artist, designer, and maker whose work blends surreal visuals with symbolic depth. Rooted in personal narratives and feminist strategies, her art explores the complexities of living in a gendered world. Lara transforms embroidery, textiles, and needlework into acts of resistance, reclaiming traditionally feminine crafts as tools for storytelling. Her performances inhabit dreamlike, liminal spaces where ritual meets reality, and softness becomes strength. With a background in Museology and Theatre Performance, Lara invites audiences into imaginative worlds where care, identity, and rebellion intertwine — challenging norms and reshaping meaning through texture, ritual, and poetic transformation.

Lara has performed across various venues, including in Switzerland at Kunsthalle Zürich, Tinguely Museum Basel, mudac, Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts Lausanne, Translocal Performance Art Giswil, Performance Reihe Neu-Oerlikon, SpazioELLE Locarno, Dimitri Theater, Verscio, Akku Kunstplatform Emmen. In the UK, her performances have taken place at the V&A Museum, Barbican, Tate Modern, LADA/LiveArtDevelopmentAgency, Chisenhaledance, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation and the Shakespeare Globe Theatre. She has also showcased her work in Spain at Matadero Madrid and the Festival Art d'Acció, in Germany at Sophiensaele Berlin and Theaterhaus Berlin, in Greece at Chimera Art Foundation and Kinono Performance Art Festival in Tinos and in Italy at  Arsenale at Venice Biennale.

 

 

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Performance Neu-Oerlikon Art Festival

Jump!

2024

CH

UK

Costume Designer

Barry Can't Swim

2024

UK

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Performance, Genesis Zürich

Pachamama

2024

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GR

Costume Designer Greek National Opera

Living Room

2023

GR

UK

Performance V&A Museum London

Divatastque

2023

UK

UK

Performance Culpeper Garden

Green

2023

UK

UK

Costume Designer for Catherine Hoffmann

Wormhole of our Formation

2023

UK

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Costume Designer for Ilmars Stern

Etudes for Bones & Objects

2023

CH

UK

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

MAW

2022

UK

USA

PAUSA "Impromptus", Performance Art Festival New York

Breathe!

2022

USA

CH

Performance Tinguely Museum

Listen With My Eyes

2022

CH

UK

Collaboration with Sophie Cochevelou, Club Vanitas, The King’s Head, London

The Dollhouse

2022

UK

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