contact: studio(at)laradamaso(dot)net
Lara Dâmaso is a Milan/Zurich-based artist who centers her artistic practice on the body, using it as a primary medium. She delves into the expressive, therapeutic, and political dimensions of the voice, closely intertwining it with movement and dance. Rather than simply a tool for intellectual articulation, she views the voice's activation as deeply connected to the physicality of the body, creating a resonant link that prioritizes sensory experience over rational thought. In this way, Lara challenges the power dynamics inherent in the controlled use of the voice. Her work spans ephemeral and permanent forms, taking shape through the mediums of performance, sound, video, sewing, multimedia installation, photography and text.
Her work has been presented in a variety of institutions and festivals, including Movement Festival, Eaton Hong Kong, Atonal Berlin, Basel Social Club, Triennale, Milano, We travel to know our own geography - Terraforma x Kuboraum (60th Venice art Biennial), theater DeSingel, Antwerp, Centre Pompidou, Paris (France), Tanzquartier Wien (AT), Gessnerallee theatre, Zurich (Switzerland), Krone Couronne, Biel/Bienne (Switzerland), Istituto Svizzero, Milan (Italy), Kunsthalle, Bern (Switzerland), MASI Lugano, (Switzerland), Kunsthaus Langenthal, (Switzerland), Centre d‘Art Contemporain, Geneva (Switzerland), Kunsthalle Zurich (Switzerland), Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (Switzerland). Lara Dâmaso is a curator of the Lausanne Les Urbaines festival.
Essays, reviews, interviews, publications, etc.
Gucci Prospettive 3 - Italiane Ancora
https://www.gucci.com/it/it/st/stories/article/gucci-prospettive-italiane-ancora
Canzonieri with Lord Spikeheart and Lara Dâmaso, Berlin Atonal, 2024
Sleek Magazine
https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/canzonieri-with-lord-spikeheart-and-lara-damaso/
King Kong Magazine, EXPERIENCE JOURNAL: VOLUME 1 ON ITALY
https://kingkongmagazine.com/product/experience-journal-volume-1-on-italy/
Lynx Magazine, 10 Artists who uses dance as their medium
https://alice-anderson.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lynx-MAG-104-113_nr_19.pd
Muzeum Susch Magazine
https://www.muzeumsusch.ch/de/1396/Book-List
Gravity and Grace, MOVE , centre pompidou, Paris, 2023
Zérodeux magazine
https://www.zerodeux.fr/en/reviews-en/move-2023-undisciplined-bodies-wondrous-demons/
Les Inrocks
Another Map to Nevada, Biel/BienneAnother Map to Nevada Biel/Bienne, The performance Agency in collaboration with Krone Couronne, 2023
Journal du Jura
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aPRlr-hBjGNnQF-eSxYYJLKf3HwpeGg7/view
her harsh, high and deep voice: a polyphony, Rakete, Tanzquartier Wien, 2023
https://tqw.at/en/clap-eyes-on-me/
ECHOES, solo exhibition, Krone Couronne, Biel/Bienne, 2023
Mousse magazine
https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/lara-damaso-krone-couronne-biel-bienne-2022/
Happening Media
Bieler TagBlatt
https://web.bielertagblatt.ch/eine-stimme-abseits-der-sprache
Undomesticated Voices, duo exhibtion with Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Istituto Svizzero, Milano, 2022
Mousse magazine
Conversation with Attilia Fattori Franchini
https://www.istitutosvizzero.it/arte/undomesticated-voices-a-conversation/
her harsh, high and deep voice: a polyphony, Les Urbaines, Lausanne 2021
PW Magazine
https://pw-magazine.com/2022/les-urbaines-2021-now-you-see-me-now-you-dont
Interview RTS
Craze, interview, PW Magazine, 2021
https://pw-magazine.com/2021/craze-5-lara-damaso