Artist Profile

LAETITIA OLIVIER-GARGANO

elbourne-based multidisciplinary artist Laetitia Olivier-Gargano works from a childhood fascination with the vegetable and animal kingdoms. She negotiates complex matrices of affect, mines theory from the uncanny to the posthuman, yet always works foremost from her haptic sensory interaction with the world, creating small sculptures and stop-motion films that reflect on experiences distinct

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