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Lara Dhondt / Walk on by
Lara Dhondt / Walk on by
Lara Dhondt / Walk on by
Lara Dhondt / Walk on by
Lara Dhondt / Walk on by

Lara Dhondt

Walk on by

€6,00
14 × 19 cm, 28 p, ills colour & bw, paperback, English
design: Studio Jurgen Maelfeyt
edition of 150
March 2011

The shelter as a blueprint of the stable house. The nomadic before the sedentary. The interest of Lara Dhondt is directed towards a fast, minimal, and vital human need to appropriate a personal space; conquering one’s own place in the world. An important element within the artist´s work is the installing of these demarcations in the urban landscape. She works as fast as possible, with (waste)materials she gathers right on the spot. The photographic representation becomes a monumental document of an ephemeral action in public space. These constructions can generate and feed ‘daydreaming’. They function as primitive, primary sculptures: based on human measurements. The artist refers to the installations she leaves behind in the periphery of the city, as to public sculptures. They are her traces of daydreaming, and the catalysts of a poetic resistance.

Lara Dhondt (Turnhout, 1979) lives in Antwerp and works with the urban landscape. In her work she uses different media such as photography, installation, video, typography and performance.