2018 Season IV
Charlotte Lagro (Netherlands)
![Super-recognizers never forget a face 2016. Prints on paper. 3 x 3 m. Individual prints 6 x 6 cm.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1536593624670-UN2M5G1QYWMF0SJA7J5P/1_Charlotte+Lagro_Super+recognizers_web.jpg)
![Fête de la Gestapo 2015. Archival photo of Gestapo agents in 1944, drawn over by 4 girls (age 6-14). 80 x 80 cm](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1536593628280-QBDBVQN5ZEA7OUPN13MT/2_Charlotte+Lagro_FetedelaGestapo_web.jpg)
![The Day the Clown Cried 2015. HD video still. 09:29 min.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1536593631701-ACN0LER3NWPVBA2SNH3I/3_CharlotteLAGRO_TDTCC_web.jpg)
![Sentimental 2018. Installation with handmade curtains. 5 x 5 x 5 m.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1536593636141-CZ7HN70W2F9FCHUIJ3R8/4_Charlotte+Lagro_Sentimental_web.jpg)
![And it was quiet… 2015. Plywood with oak veneer and mahogany stain. 4 x 1,5 m.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55673af7e4b0d4766b8a43a3/1537801495456-2GLA3V69AMF4AMENBAA4/Charlotte+Lagro_And+it+was+quiet...-Nars-5.jpg)
Artist Statement/ Biography
The video art, photographs, installations and performances of Charlotte Lagro discloses the maker's sharp observatory qualities to the public eye. Staged as well as found situations serve in a complexity of narratives that often is based upon a thorough research in historic events. The human point of view becomes essential throughout the process of concept and making. Stories, some disturbing, unfold. Acted by a mime artist who's visiting the sites of a concentration camp, by a photograph of arrested Nazis at the end of the war, drawn over by children’s hands or acted by a 1970-ies fridge. The stories are close to its listener or viewer, recognizable, sometimes ironic with an existential disturbance.--
Charlotte Lagro is based in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Her work has been displayed at Biennial of Photography and Visual Art (BIP) Liège, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, CIAP Hasselt, SCHUNCK* Heerlen, Galerie Nadja Vilenne in Liège, LOOP Video Art Fair Barcelona, FIAC/Officielle Art Fair Paris, Format Art Space Copenhagen, NCAD Gallery Dublin, Tent Rotterdam, Media Forum Festival Moscow among others. Charlotte holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design. In 2015, she was a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Other residencies include: Cow House Studios, RAVI and the Brain and Emotion Lab of Maastricht University. She won the Hermine van Bers Young Artist Award in 2015.
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