BOISBUCHET RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
DIEGO LARA
SEASON 2025
Diego Lara is a graphic designer and the director of his own studio, specializing in editorial design, visual identity, and typography. His interests lie at the intersection of artistic practice, ecological thinking, and the observation of territory. His work explores the relationships between humans and the natural environment, understanding landscape not as a static backdrop, but as a living organism with which it is possible to establish a dialogue. Through attention to detail, drawing, collection, and material intervention, he seeks ways to record the traces and signs that reveal the memory of places.
His artistic research focuses on form, structure, and material as vehicles for listening to and interpreting the environment. In this process, materials such as ceramics, textiles, and paper play an active role: they do not impose themselves on the territory, but respond to its rhythms, textures, and transformations. His aim is to develop a practice that combines visual poetry and ecological reflection, where creation is conceived as an act of dialogue and resonance between body, nature, and thought.
During his six-week residency at Domaine de Boisbuchet, Diego Lara developed two projects that deepen his interest in the relationships between material, landscape, and perception. Both processes began with a sensitive approach to the environment, where observing, collecting, and transforming became a form of dialogue with the territory.
The first, “Before, Beneath, Beyond”, created in collaboration with American artist Maggie Silverman, explored the material and symbolic dimension of clay directly extracted from the Boisbuchet grounds. The project culminated in a temporary installation which, after dismantling, returned the pieces to the Domaine’s lake in a ritual gesture that closed the material cycle: the created forms returned to their origin.
His second project, “Landmarks”, was an individual work focused on botanical observation of the Domaine through a detailed study of its flora. Inspired by the structures, rhythms, and geometries of local plants, Diego conceived a sculptural installation that abstractly reinterpreted these organic forms using wood and rattan. The result was an open work, integrated into one of Boisbuchet’s fields, where the lightness of the structure and its dialogue with light and wind evoked the continuity between the natural and the human.
Photos : Manon Arrougé