Larissa Araz

Larissa Araz (Istanbul, 1990) is an artist and founder of Poşe artist-run space in Istanbul, Turkey. She studied Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, NY, USA, and Visual Arts at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. She was a recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Award in 2021. She participated in the Saha Studio residency from 2019–2020, and Arter Research Program from 2020–2021, and WHW Akademija in 2023.

Araz focuses on alternative histories, non-human witnesses, denied shreds of evidence, and the construction of dominant ideologies through institutional knowledge production. Through personal narratives, she researches documents, archives, belongings, ruins, silences, traces, and memories that are not included in or are kept hidden from social memory. Between reality and fiction, she tries to discuss possible futures and unrevealed pasts using mythology and rituals. She uses different mediums in her practice but primarily focuses on text and image-making.

Larissa Araz is a participant of the Onassis AiR Tailor-made Residencies program 2023/24.