Daria Lazo (b.1992) is a Russian-born British visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work explores body politics and the societal pressures surrounding women’s bodies, often focusing on experiences of womanhood, mental health, identity, and nostalgia. Working primarily with analogue photography and moving image, she also experiments with sculpture and alternative processes. Drawing from her background in film, Daria’s work moves between still and moving images, often reflecting on themes of vulnerability, survival, and resistance. Through her practice, she challenges the gaze placed on the female body, looking for ways to dismantle objectification and create space for more nuanced, personal narratives.
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BODY
With Her I: The Curse of Menarche
— Reclaiming menstrual bodies through installation and performance.
With Her II: Corpus — Exploring female body image, identity and mental health.
Korobit [kɐˈrobʲɪt] — A dialogue on displacement, memory, and transformation through the female body in space.
Body Echoes — Documented conceptual performance of the body as an archive of trauma, gesture and resistance.
With Her I: Imprint — Vulva lifecasts in resin, sculptural impressions reclaiming the female body and its narratives.
MOVEMENT
Aithéria — A conceptual, impromptu performance captured on film, reflecting on freedom, resilience and the female body as an activist vessel.
Space Apart — An exploration of intimacy, absence, and the body’s gestures of longing through movement.
Fluid Life
— Experimental short film exploring gender fluidity through playful performance with body and water.
SELF
With Her I: Self-Portrait — A performative video installation reflecting on personal histories of shame, blood, and ritual.
I’m Sorry You Caught Me Sad — A personal reflection on melancholia, anxiety, and belonging, through self-portraiture, gesture, and text.