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.

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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.