Solo se sei mago (Only if You Are a Magician), 2006

The source of Lara Favaretto’s artistic investigations is the festival in its various incarnations, and she draws on popular forms and associations, such as the carnival, the circus, and carousels. Each of the artist’s works stems from a desire to “give a day,” in which she offers a suspended time, separated from the predictability of everyday life and enlivened by the possibility of the marvelous. By shifting that approach into reality, each work thus becomes a gift through which the intoxication of an upside-down world is made tangible. Not tied to any one technique, the artist produces videos, sculptures, photographs, and drawings, and often creates installations or performances.