Lara Erel (DE)

Lara lives and works between Dortmund, Lyon and Vienna

For about three years, she has been researching what it means for her to have and to be a female body. Non-objectification and representing this body outside of the male gaze is at the core of her intention She rather bases her depictions on intimate, physical and social observations or on dreams and memories of her body Recently she has started to turn her eye towards her loved one and he has become a new recurrent protagonist Drawing and experimenting with material play major roles in her artistic practice, whether she shapes clay or paints with oil pastel, acrylic or watercolour on paper.