Artist Statement
My approach to art-making is to think about and question dilemmas in our contemporary world, and bring these ideas to light using visual and sonic forms. Through different media including performance, photography, sculpture, video, and installation, my work focuses on the relationships between personhood, space, place, time, movement, and memory. My goal is to visually create socio-geographic imaginaries that exist in everyday life, but may not be readily apparent.
Lara Stein Pardo’s artwork, research, and writing revolve around themes of space and place and the complexities involved in people’s negotiation of the socio-geographic world. Born in Miami, Stein Pardo earned her BA in Ethnic Studies and Studio Art from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and her MA in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Currently, she is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Michigan and a Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with affiliations at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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