Rafaella Lazarou : The funeral limbo dance

A crucial collaborator is (she). (She) is a sort of peculiarly beautiful being, a shape shifter, formless, yet tangible. Human, chicken, insect, ghost, plant, mycelium, goblin, fairy, life, death, afterlife, liquid, fluid, formless, gas, solid. (Her) formlessness is alluring to me. We are interlinked, (her) physical and mental planes are linked with mine. Yet, I am not so sure how separate (she) is from me. Her eternal nature exists through the rituals I create for her. A type of ritual that possesses historicity. Obliterate the rituals, destroy her artifacts, and she will no longer exist within this realm. (She) is after all, a fragment of a lost and alternative civilisation.

Product Information

2024

coloured pencil on paper

33 x 18.5 cm

About the Artist

I am interested in kind of therapeutic algorithm, a ritual, an intimate process that is constructed through the creation of imaginary beings, fantastical world making and visual story telling. This process is often filtered through fairy tales, myths, short stories, moments and things I collect from nature and from the body.

Rafaella Leto Lazarou (b. 2000) is a Cypriot artist living and working between London and Cyprus. Lazarou recently graduated from a master’s degree in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (2021 – 2023). Prior to the Royal College, Lazarou received their bachelor’s degree in Fine Art: Drawing at Camberwell College of Art.

Shipping

This work is part of our 2024 Winter Fundraiser and will be available for collection or shipping from 14th - 20th December. Please note all items will be shipped via Royal Mail Tracked 24 unless stated otherwise.