CAROLYN LAZARD

Rather than an anomaly, Lazard contends that everyone experiences disability in some form. For the artist, disability is a creative lens through which they can conjure alternative modes of accessibility, labor, and care. Lazard often shoots or performs in doctors' offices or in their own home because spaces of extreme alienation or extreme domesticity are where they locate their disability.

Lazard turns these moments—medical procedures, administering medication, navigating medical bureaucracy, hospitalizations—into publicly consumable images or text. The artist is also interested in how popular forms, such as social media or cinematic genres like horror and science fiction, can be vehicles for experiencing intimacy. Their work takes an experience that is often circumscribed to the realm of the private, and makes it visible and sometimes banal. As such, Lazard's documentation of chronic illness destabilizes the separation of the public and private spheres.

Text courtesy KADIST