Lafawndah

Lafawndah

17/10/2023 / 31/10/2023

Start of residency 17/10/2023
End of residency 31/10/2023

Lafawndah (France, 1984) is a musician and multidisciplinary artist based in Paris. Her musical performances have been presented at the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Venice Biennale, the Barbican, the Southbank Center in London, the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Haus Der Kunst in Berlin among others. After a first EP released on the famous English label Warp in 2016, and a first album on the German label k7! in 2019, Lafawndah will release her second album ‘The Fifth Season’ in 2020 on the Latency label. She makes her directorial debut with a new opera project called La Descente D’Inanna, which she writes and directs with Californian artist Trustfall.

Her project at Villa Medici

The creation of the opera ‘La Descente d’Inanna’, promoted by the French Ministry of Culture in 2021 as part of the Mondes Nouveaux project, marks a new stage in the artist’s work. With this new creation, Lafawndah is seeking to produce a form capable of uniting all her practices and her artistic community, so as to collectively serve a founding story: that of the Descent of Inanna into the subterranean worlds and the creation of the cycle of the seasons. At Villa Medici, Lafanwdah and Trustall will be working on the composition of the songs.

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