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Angel Lartigue

Artist

New York, NY

https://play.soot.com/subscientist

I describe my work as Bacteriomancy. An artistic medium informed by the processes of biological putrefaction.

Angel Lartigue works across installation, performance, photography, and drawing to examine putrefaction, one of the biological stages of decomposition, and its capability for nourishment and critical reflection. Her works incorporate an array of materials including microscopic life forms from burial sites, essay writing, nightclub architectures, soundwork collaborations and even odors captured during fieldwork. Angel Lartigue has exhibited work at SOOT, New York (2024); The Latinx Project at New York University, New York (2021); USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles (2022); Lyles & King, New York (2022); among others.

Lartigue was an artist in residence at artistic laboratory, SymbioticA, part of the University of Western Australia Perth (2020). Lartigue presented her essay “Science at the Club: Putrefaction as an Artistic Medium” part of the international conference “Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science,” hosted by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria (2020). She has collaborated with the South Texas Human Rights Center (2020-2022) and has undergone training in human remains recovery at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University (2018). She received the Grants to Artist grant through the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2023) and has been selected for ISCP, International Studies Curatorial Program, as part of the Vision Fund (2025).

Selected Works

This installation view of "MASS BODY" shows three walls of a room, the far wall is a brick wall painted white with a large arched window in the center. On the wall to the left is a large photographic vinyl with an image of nude bodies laying in a landscape of rocks. On the right wall are two separate charcoal illustrations of what appears to be two human figures. In the center of the room is an angled white structure with two speakers to its left and right and a red printed vinyl attached and then continuing on the floor in a rectangle shape. There is an image of a figure wearing a hat and looking at the viewer.

This installation view shows a long printed banner attached to the base of a glass mosaic window with three panels. The banner rolls out from the windowsill and on the floor toward the viewer. In the center panel of the glass mosaic hangs a clothes hanger with 52 petri dishes in the shape of a rectangle. The long banner shows a reclined figure’s face at the top with illustrations of objects and body parts throughout and petri dishes growing various forms of bacteria.

This is an image still from the multi-part performance "BACTERIOMANCY (ii)" which appears to be taking place in a parking lot. Black folding chairs and viewers in face masks sit on the left of the frame. On the right is a slightly elevated stage with the artist standing and bending slightly to the left pulling on the slit of a dress. In front of the artist are objects including small vases and strappy high heels.