INFO

genesislauu@gmail.com



American b. 1988, Landstuhl, Germany 
Currently lives and works in Istanbul, Türkiye


MFA Visual Art, Lesley University, 2018
MFA Creative Writing, Lesley University, 2016
BA Philosophy, Middle Tennessee University, 2013



My work originally started with driving (3 years (off and on) living out of my car and driving around the US writing and making photographs) which became the basis for a lot of my work. That now encompasses photography, text and the body, topographical interventions in the landscape, and the role that the photographic and literary canon has played inside of all this:

Ordinary evil, guerilla exegesis, Silkk the Shocker vs Kant, blackness as an American export, the corny old hero’s journey, “freedom” projects, “explorers,” things that become mythologized into biblical proportions, passion narratives, longevity as a form of dominance, devotional labor, objectivity as a virtue, “victory over self,” nostalgia for danger, funny stories lost in translation, and and and.






RECENT


2024
Crossroads 
“Tips and Tricks”
Istanbul, Türkiye



2020
Space10 x are.na: The New Everyday Life
Remote Residency
Copenhagen / New York / Istanbul



2020
Temple Bar Gallery
Winter School
Dublin, Ireland



2020
Visual Arts Ireland
Member
Dublin, Ireland



2020
Sample Studios
Member
Cork, Ireland



2019 
Glasgow Gallery of Photography 
Inaugural show 
Glasgow, Scotland



2018 
“Something You _____ Is Almost Gone” 
VanDernoot Gallery
Cambridge, Massachusetts



2017
BINOCULAR
VanDernoot Gallery
Cambridge, Massachusetts



2014 
Center for Afrofuturist Studies / Public Space One
Public Programming and Outreach
Iowa City, Iowa