Today we’d like to introduce you to Lara Kamhi
Hi Lara, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
After studying theatre, film, visual communication design and media art, I started my career as a media artist and an experimental film director. With time, I started curating shows concentrating on the field of Expanded Cinema. Writing and giving seminars about film and art followed. My main topic evolves around the subject of history and futures of cinematic technology as well as the erosion of reality through experience and immersive design. Aside from all these practices, I design for stage and shoot music videos for alternative music bands.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
An art career is never a smooth road. Through a rapidly changing world and technology, the way we make and share our works constantly changes. Until a couple years ago, multi-tasking was rather helpful. Yer recently, many paradigms changed completely. Adapting to a world inseminated by AI now seems as the main challenge. Labour is not as valued as it once was. All this brings upon a certain resistance. My main focus is to adapt without losing my core principles and motivations.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am known for being a site-specific media artist working with video, light and sound. Aside from that, a recent exhibition I have curated reminded people of my curatorial practice after a break of seven years. Though I’ve been writing in art magazines for the past ten years, I recently started to write more frequently. Therefore some may know me as a critic. Moreover, I’m also known for my music videos which adapt magical realism in their aesthetics; so some know me for these rather macabre works. I also direct experimental short films, yet these are mostly shown in gallery settings. In short, I would simply call myself an ‘artist’, and that would be it. The rest comes with the process of doing, making, researching and deepening all these interests.
Do you have recommendations for books, apps, blogs, etc?
Books, yes. So many! But these are never ‘personal development’ books. I read about psychology, a lot. Yet giving advice about these sorts of books through an online interview seems a bit awkward and out of place. New Atlantis by Francis Bacon and The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran were the last books I’ve read – and oh my god! They were precious gems indeed.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.larakamhi.com
- Instagram: @larakami
