Berlin-based artist Lara Faroqhi (b.1968) explores space through form that may be geometrical or organic, logically or naturally re- duced. Using repetitions, accidents, and overlapping, structures are interwoven, disrupted and multi-layered.

Faroqhi has worked with ceramics, polyester resin, and glass, but she is best known for her more recent work focused on drawing – juxtaposing pencil, water colour, oil and silk screen printing. Faroqhi’s aim is to liberate the image from one fixed perspective. She reveals the working process in the work, even including possible mistakes. She strives to describe a multitude within a whole, be it in harmony or off balance.

Faroqhi studied painting at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design, London. During her London studies, she also accepted a fellowship to New Zealand at the Auckland School of Arts. A few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall she returned to Berlin to complete her Masters in Sculpture at the Kun- sthochschule Weissensee in former East Berlin.

Numerous works are in private collections in Germany, Great Britain, USA and New Zealand, including Kupferstichkabinett Berlin (Department of Prints and Drawings), RBB Art Collec- tion, Investitionsbank, Lockbund Collection, Cleveland Clinic Art Collection, Kinemathek Arsenal, Collection Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

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