LALA DRONA
Lala Drona is a Franco-American artist of Venezuelan heritage working between Paris and London. A graduate of the Royal College of Art (MA Painting), she has exhibited internationally, including her 2024 solo show Virtual Reverence at Elios Gallery, Paris. Featured in Art Plugged and on Carrie Scott’s Seen podcast, her practice explores what she calls the “Abject Feminine,” shifting from the body’s exterior to its interior and affective states. Through visceral landscapes and totemic figures, her paintings evoke the digital and summon forms that are bodily yet uncanny, unstable and ever-changing.
Raised in a bi-cultural household of internet pioneers and entrepreneurs, and shaped by reconstructive surgeries, she grew up attuned to the body’s viscerality and the experience of inhabiting it. Painting is the site where the body evolves beyond itself, spilling forward in relentless motion, a force of becoming that exceeds containment.
She lives and works between Paris and London.
Artist statement
Lala Drona's paintings explore what she calls the “Abject Feminine,” turning away from external appearance to reveal the body as interior, visceral, and uncanny. Through satirical totemic figures and fleshy landscapes, she evokes forms that are familiar yet estranged, restrained yet spilling. These works capture the body not as fixed, but as unstable matter in a constant state of becoming.
Shaped by reconstructive surgeries and a bi-cultural upbringing among internet pioneers and entrepreneurs, Drona paints from the traces of lived corporeality. Her surfaces evoke the digital through paint, channeling gradients, distortions, and excess. Her work stages the body as a force of becoming that spills forward beyond containment, embodying a posthuman condition.
