LALA DRONA
Lala Drona is a Franco-American artist of Venezuelan heritage based in Paris. A graduate of the Royal College of Art (MA Painting), she has exhibited internationally, including Immanence at Robegago Gallery, Paris (2026), and her work has entered institutional collections, including the Musée Artistes Femmes, Lausanne.
Her paintings explore what she calls the "Abject Feminine," turning away from external appearance to reveal the body as interior, visceral, and uncanny. Her protocol began with watching her own filmed surgeries on repeat, then relying on somatic memory to translate them onto canvas. She sees her paintings as bodies or sites which never truly resolve.
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 post-body condition.
Interview of Lala Drona, produced by Emma Carmichael and Clarisse Fontainee for The Kumo Collective.
