Lara Buffard is a French Baroque persona based in London. She is a performance artist, designer and maker who incorporates symbolic and surrealistic visuals. Lara is interested in exploring the personal, feminist strategies and subjectivities in a lived world, the liminal space between reality and fantasy, performance art and ritual.
She subverts the darkest aspects of life through striking and colourful images, communicating individual and social ideas in playful and powerful acts, transforming the human body into a Raphaelite creature.
This exploration extends to her work as a costume designer, where she creates performative garments that amalgamate the divine and the ephemeral, theatrical and natural, in a glamourously mythical result.
Lara graduated in Museology and later in Theatre Performance and Contemporary Live Arts.
She is Body Intelligence Collective's creative producer, which involves contemporary dance and new technology and visiting lecturer at different universities.
Overview & Contact
UK
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
MAW
2022
UK
USA
PAUSA "Impromptus", Performance Art Festival New York
Breathe!
2022
USA
CH
Tinguely Museum
Listen With My Eyes
2022
CH
UK
Collaboration with Sophie Cochevelou, Club Vanitas, The King’s Head, London
The Dollhouse
2022
UK
CH
Lecture - HSLU Lucerne School of Arts and Design
Costumes in performance as a political act
2022
CH
BR
Arte & Natureza Exhibition at Universidade Federal De Santa Catarina
Ex-Cava
2021
BR
B
Dansathon, Theatre de Liège
Digital Umbilical a virtual stage
2021
B
B
European dance & new technologies prize , Theatre de Liège
Mentor at Dansathon 2021
2021
B
CH
International Performance Art Giswil festival
Soraya Nikki Louise Marguerite
2021
CH
CH
Collaboration with Pirmin Breu, About Us Festival, Zürich
I YOU WE
2021
CH
UK
Curated by Agni Russu
Walking on a Locus
2021
UK
UK
Body as Nature, Body as Self Exhibition curated by Shafiga Aghayeva, Norwich
Tangible presence in the chaos
2021
UK