Cristina Lavosi
Off the Grid
Periode: 19.06—12.10.2025
Cristina Lavosi (b. 1993) is a visual artist and practice-based researcher living in The Hague (NL). Her work is concerned with investigating institutional violence and challenging power structures. Her practice looks at how visual and verbal language is constructed and performed by Western political and cultural institutions to shape dominant narratives and impose norms of living. Being directed at dismantling hegemonic narratives to effectively propose alternative social imaginaries, her work is based on the deconstruction and re-contextualisation of visual and textual materials, resulting in time-based media and audio-visual installations. Her artistic language encompasses digital and analogue video (16 mm and Super 8), archival footage, sound, photography, and prints.
Website
Studio View
Cristina Lavosi
During her residency, from June until September, Cristina Lavosi will research the critical and counter-representation of Western prevailing systems of political organisation. She will look at how visual and verbal language is constructed and performed, especially by political and cultural institutions.
Cristina is a research-based visual artist and filmmaker, currently based in The Hague. Her practice is concerned with the critical analysis and counter-representation of Western prevailing systems of political organisation. With her works she looks at how visual and verbal language is constructed and performed, especially by political and cultural institutions, to shape dominant narratives, impose archetypes of normative existence, and legitimise power structures. Next to the deconstruction of hegemonic ideologies, she is committed to a transformative approach to storytelling and to finding ways to propose alternative social imaginaries, mostly making use of fiction and re-enactment in my audio-visual work. She see fiction as having a subversive potential to shake preconceived views of reality and challenge established order.
For instance, her recent work (A Choral Accomplishment) is a semi-fictional film, set in a community kitchen, where home-cheesemaking and choral singing become collective practices of resistance against neoliberal isolation and capitalist exploitation. Inspired by Sardinian shepherds’ protests against low milk prices in 2019, the magic-realist scenery hints at work-sharing and the communalisation of everyday (re)production labour as a possible foundation of an anti-capitalist program. The film was created through collaborations with artists and practitioners from various fields, who contributed to all elements of the filmmaking process (music, props, costumes, vocals, and performance).
