On Sunday, September 22nd, join us at 7pm to meet Lara Ovídio, the new Iatrus Residency Program participant.
Lara Ovídio is a Brazilian artist based in São Paulo. She is currently developing the research project Eschatology as a PhD candidate in Visual Arts at the School of Arts and Communication at the University of São Paulo. In 2024, she was awarded the PrInt-USP/PDSE CAPES scholarship to spend six months in London as a visiting PhD student at Chelsea College, University of the Arts London.
Working with video, photography, and text, Lara experiments with artistic processes such as appropriation, montage, and collage. By creating sci-fi narratives that merge distant futures with remote pasts, blending fictional and non-fictional elements, she seeks to explore the relationship between image production, circulation, and the acceleration of the end of the world. Her main interests lie in future imaginaries related to extinction and outer space.
During her stay at Iatrus, she is exploring a provocative idea from art historian and curator Simona Vidmar. On one hand, the curator suggests that communist monuments, which have not vanished in the past forty years, must be “lucky” enough to become images and survive in this form. On the other hand, this survival comes at the expense of losing their historical significance.
Either ironically or not, Lara delves into these conflicting ideas to speculate on the following questions: Will the dominant mode of existence in the future be the image? Will bodily experience be reduced to seeing?