Living in the Hyphen Podcast Season 1 Episode 4 hosted by Leo Taylor-Jannati. Today’s interview is with the Venezuelan-American painter & vidéaste artist Lala Drona.

Lala Drona (b. 1988) is a Venezuelan-American painter and videaste, born in Denver, Colorado. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado, Lala Drona has since published and exhibited her work internationally. Most recently, her videos and paintings exploring digital spaces and the female gaze, were shown at the Cite des Arts de Paris. Her paintings, videos, and writing explore the meta-body, alternate realities, and women in the digital world. The totality of her artwork contributes to, and exists within a fictional universe and mythology established online and then recontextualized in the physical world through paint on canvas, performance, and sculpture. She is based in Paris, France.

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Artist Statement:

​​Lala Drona plays with the idea of the mirror and reflectivity, alternate realities, the transitions through these realities and how they manifest in our daily lives. Refusing to choose just one medium, she paints, writes, and creates short films, all which take place in her artistic universe. The voyage from the virtual to the real, and vice versa, play a significant role within her practice, and she represents these transition with her use of symmetry and grayscale. She re-contextualizes virtual media in reality through paint and canvas, tying everything together to create a cohesive and complex narrative.

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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/laladronaofficial/

Website - http://www.laladrona.com/home

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNyouZTqI4asgXvH6jZkKfw

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