Lara Buffard is a Swiss-French performance artist, designer, and maker whose work captivates through rich symbolic and surreal visuals, igniting curiosity and reflection wherever she presents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the exploration of personal narratives and feminist strategies, drawing attention to the complex subjectivities of living in a gendered world. Lara’s work occupies the threshold between reality and fantasy, performance and ritual — a liminal space where stories are transformed and meaning is reshaped.

Deeply influenced by traditionally feminine practices, Lara uses embroidery, needlework, and textiles not only as artistic tools but as acts of reclamation and resistance. These materials become vessels for storytelling, subverting domesticity and transforming the intimate into the political. Through delicate stitches and carefully crafted textures, she elevates craft into a powerful feminist language — one that speaks of care, memory, identity, and rebellion.

Lara invites her audiences into dreamlike worlds where softness and strength coexist, where fantasy becomes a vehicle for questioning norms, and where ancient rituals are reimagined for contemporary struggles.

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Lara graduated in Museology and later in Theatre Performance and Contemporary Live Arts. 

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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@Lara_Buffard_

laravog@hotmail.ch

+41 (0)78 265 36 94

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