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Lara Rocho works at the intersection of textile art, sculpture, and material. Themes such as love, obsession, Eros, artificial intelligence, and spatial concepts form the theoretical foundation of her practice, enriched by carefully selected texts and literary references. The duality of love and pain becomes visible in her work as she explores authentic emotional connections within an increasingly technology-driven world.
Her recent work Longing for a Hero serves as a point of departure for ongoing investigations into heroes and their myths.

In her artistic practice, she creates large-scale textile installations by combining diverse materials in a process-oriented manner. The resulting fragments take on organic, eccentric forms that juxtapose softness, transparency, and rigidity. This interplay gives rise to textile tableaux that appeal to the sense of touch through their structure and materiality. Her work consistently aims to open new perspectives on textiles and spatial experience. To achieve this, she employs techniques such as weaving, embroidery, ceramics, analog photography, sublimation printing, and metalwork to produce tactile structures and delicate, fragile surfaces.

Through this approach, she reveals the supernatural force of fibers and fabrics, allowing materials and space to speak for themselves. Her surreal worlds evoke a nostalgic atmosphere reminiscent of bygone rituals. By merging unexpected and unconventional materials with symbolic codes, she constructs dreamlike environments. She draws inspiration from the spectacular spirit photography of the 1920s, which sought to render paranormal phenomena and ghosts visible. At the same time, contemporary dating behaviors shaped by social media, the aesthetics of the post-internet era, and the influence of artificial intelligence play a central role in her artistic inquiry.

Lara Rocho was born in Cologne and lives and works in Berlin.

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