Laresa Kosloff (b. 1974) makes performative videos, short films, audio works, and participatory artworks. Her practice examines various representational strategies, each one linked by an interest in the body and its agency within the everyday. Some of her projects are structured around language, whilst others use slapstick physicality to communicate ideas. An incisive humor is woven throughout Kosloff’s work, whether in questioning the act of “looking” within the public realm, or drawing out the tensions between received cultural values, individual agency, and free will. Laresa is the recipient of the prestigious 2019 Guirguis New Art Prize and the 2023 Nillumbik Art Prize. Recent solo exhibitions include Benalla Art Gallery (2024), IMA, Brisbane (2023), and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2021). Her work has been presented in group exhibitions at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Te Tuhi Art Museum in Aotearoa, Casula Powerhouse, and Monash Museum of Art. She works as a lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne/Naarm.