Lara Buffard is a French performance artist, designer, and maker whose work blends surreal visuals with symbolic depth. Rooted in personal narratives and feminist strategies, her art explores the complexities of living in a gendered world.
BIO
Lara Buffard (b. 1973, Paris) is a French performance artist, maker, and designer whose work fuses surreal imagery with feminist strategies and poetic resistance. With degrees in Museology and Theatre Performance & Contemporary Live Arts, she weaves together performance, textiles, and costume design to explore identity, ritual, and care. Lara’s practice reclaims embroidery and craft as acts of storytelling, blurring boundaries between softness and strength, intimacy and rebellion.
Her projects have been presented at major institutions including the V&A Museum (London),Tinguely Museum (Basel), Mudac Museum (Lausanne), Kunsthalle Zürich, Sophiensaele (Berlin), Sadler’s Wells (London), Maison de la Danse (Lyon), and the Venice Biennale Opening. Collaborations include works with Boris Charmatz, Taylor Mac, and Sophie Cochevelou, as well as international festivals such as Pausa Performance Art Festival (New York) and EcoFutures (London).
In 2024, her feature film Paradise Suffers, co-created with A. Kougia, was awarded by the Greek Film Center and NextGen EU. Alongside her artistic practice, Lara lectures in Performance and Textile Design at universities in London, Bern, Lucerne, and Liège, and currently leads the Costume Design Module at St. Mary’s University, London.
Her writings on performance and textile art have appeared in Haus a Rest, Duende Contemporary Art Zine, and Amsel Verlag Zürich, further extending her exploration of how craft, care, and performance can transform narratives of resistance and belonging.