Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Olivia Funes Lastra – Au-delà de la mer, une rivière (Beyond the sea, a stream), 2024
2024
Fabric paintings, painted ribbons
Venue
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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.
In residence at the Grand Parc Miribel Jonage and the Atelier Léonard-de-Vinci / Médiathèque Maison de Quartier in Vaulx-en-Velin for the Lyon Biennale, Olivia Funes Lastra is working on painting, writing and performance with a cross-generational group of residents whose identity is marked by experiences of geographical and linguistic migration.
Courtesy of the artist
Creation for the 17th Lyon Biennale
Co-commissioning work with ¡Viva Villa!
With the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
With the help of Boesner-Lyon
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