My work has primarily been connected with a notion of inheritance, recollection of home as well as the reconstitution of imagined community. Today, I spent half my life outside my native Turkey. Looking back with hindsight on childhood memories of family and community is employed as an entry point to many and most of my projects. Such reminiscence of family gives way to cognizance about broader communities, through which a construct to socio-political narratives arise and become fundamental. As my life encounters more time in the US, my work captivates analogous questions with the American narrative of imperial power, capitalism and democracy.
Lara Peso is a graphic artist. She was born in 1983 in Istanbul, Turkey. She moved to the US for her undergraduate degree at University of Virginia. After finishing her Bachelors degree, she moved to New York to attended school at Parsons The New School for Design, working towards an AAS degree, while she was working in various graphic design agencies. She worked in New York as a graphic designer for three years gaining more and more experience in design and decided that she wanted to take another step towards the arts side of her medium. In 2009, Lara moved to San Francisco and is currently working towards her MFA degree in San Francisco Art Institute. She has been working on projects involving 3-D design, animation, video and installation.
