Olivia Funes Lastra

Venue

Les Grandes Locos

Metropolitan area

Born in 1995 in Wellington, New Zealand
Lives and works in Paris, France

Abstract and colourful, Olivia Funes Lastra’s multidisciplinary work explores the phenomena of migration, translation and hybridisation. Using dyed and painted fabrics, the artist assembles ephemeral, nomadic architectures that carry memories of places she has lived. On her own or with others, Olivia Funes Lastra activates her installations with performative readings that resonate with words and colours from elsewhere.

A physical and symbolic collective space, Olivia Funes Lastra’s work Au-delà de la mer, une rivière (Beyond the sea, a stream) takes the form of paintings to be lived in, in dialogue with the architecture and history of the former railway workshops. In resonance with the narratives of mobility associated with trains, the pieces of fabric interweave various stories of travel, creating a patchwork of richly coloured memories of places and languages. Projected onto the textiles, images of landscapes trace new horizons, to which words respond, in a polyphony.