Dasha Lazo (b.1992) is a Russian-born British visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work explores body politics and the pressures surrounding women's bodies, drawing from personal experience rather than political intent. The themes that run through her practice womanhood, mental health, identity and nostalgia emerge from lived experience first.
Working primarily with analogue photography and moving image, she also makes sculpture and experiments with other processes. Her background in film shapes how she moves between still and moving image.
Since graduating from the MA Photography programme at London College of Communication in 2021 her work has been shown and published internationally.
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BODY
With Her I: The Curse of Menarche
— Reclaiming menstrual bodies through installation and performance.
With Her II: Corpus — Exploring female body image, identity and mental health.
Korobit [kɐˈrobʲɪt] — A dialogue on displacement, memory and transformation through the female body in space.
Body Echoes — Documented conceptual performance of the body as an archive of trauma, gesture and resistance.
With Her I: Imprint — Vulva lifecasts in resin, sculptural impressions reclaiming the female body and its narratives.
MOVEMENT
Aithéria — A conceptual, impromptu performance captured on film, reflecting on freedom, resilience and the female body as an activist vessel.
Home— A Super 8 short created with movement artist Konstantina Katsikari, exploring girlhood, memory and the longing for home through quiet, sensory performance.
Space Apart — An exploration of intimacy, absence and the body’s gestures of longing through movement.
Fluid Life
— Experimental short film exploring gender fluidity through playful performance with body and water.
SELF
With Her I: Self-Portrait — A performative video installation reflecting on personal histories of shame, blood and ritual.
I’m Sorry You Caught Me Sad — A personal reflection on melancholia, anxiety and belonging, through self-portraiture, gesture and text.