Lara Ferrari Tummma

Lara Ferrari Tummma is a choreographer, performer and writer from Argentina, based in Brussels. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual and Spatial Arts from ISAC (2022) and a Licentiate degree in Choreographic Composition in Expresión Corporal from UNA, Argentina (2019).

Her practice focuses on performance and writing as activators that generate states of empathy, vulnerability, and fragility in/from the body. She works from a commitment to thinking affect and sensory practices as political tools that enable dissimilar perceptive modes and build other ways of relating to each other and to the environment.

Since 2017, she has been part of the collective métodos de supervivencia with Josefina Imfeld. Together, they explore ways to share and amplify different sensitive experiences and modes of encountering matter. This collective has received grants, awards and funding for creation and publication, including the Residency Grant (Flemish Arts Decree, 2024), the Metropolitan Arts Fund (Argentina, 2022), and the National Arts Fund (Argentina, 2021).

She understands artistic work as a collaborative practice that exceeds a specific position, participating in works, residencies and projects in collaboration with different artists in the fields of dance, performance and fiction writing. She is currently working with Carly Rae Heathcote, Carolina Mendonça and Cathrin Jarema. In March 2024, she co-founded Picar with other artists, a studio located in Schaerbeek that is still taking shape as it searches for its ways of existing through desire and trial.

Lara’s work has been presented in a number of contexts, including Kunsthalle (Zurich), KVS (Brussels), La Mansa Mansión (Argentina), Hotel Inminente (Argentina), Beursschouwburg Café (Brussels), Gessnerallee (Zurich), Hamlet Gallery (Zurich), Topic (Geneva), Munar Arte (Buenos Aires), among others.