Lara Gasparotto
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EXHIBITION
Dans la forêt (In the Woods)
Lara Gasparotto, Anthisnes, Belgium | laragasparotto.com
A photo series capturing the essence of Nature in the Gaspé Peninsula. Its trees, its mountain streams and rivers, its flights of birds. These images, imbued with a character both wild and gentle, transport those who see them to a dream world, evoking a desire to escape to this mysterious region.
Each image, revealing the intricate beauty of the elements of nature, from rough-hewn rocks to delicate mushrooms, paints a vivid picture of this serene yet wild landscape, inviting the audience to explore and immersive themselves in a captivating world.
Above all it’s the look of a mother observing the world from the perspective of her child.
EXHIBITION AT RENCONTRES
Dans la forêt (In the Woods)
Lara Gasparotto (Liège, 1989) is a graduate of the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc, in Liège. She lives and works in Anthisnes, Wallonia, Belgium. Her work has been exhibited on numerous occasions in Belgium and abroad, including at the Biennale de la Photographie de Liège, at the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, at the Guandong Museum of Arts in Guangzhou, at the 3 Shadows Arts Center in Beijing, at the OCT Arts Center in Shenzhen, at the FotoMuseum Den Haag in the Hague, at the Botanique in Brussels, and at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris.
She has published five books, and occasionally works as a curator. Since 2019 she has also worked on the project African Vox, created with the museologist Basika Paola. African Vox was launched with the aim of stimulating the creation of contemporary Belgian art by inviting young Belgian and Congolese artists to reclaim their colonial history. The complex history that connects these two countries remains to this day a taboo subject on both sides of the hemisphere.