Larisa Safaryan Contemporary Artist — Los Angeles, California

It takes a moment to believe it. What you see is so precise, so vivid, so luminous — and yet every work by Larisa Safaryan is composed entirely of eggshell fragments, each one delicately cut by hand.

Piece by piece, gesture by gesture, she assembles these fragile shards into entire worlds. Ideas of life, renewal, rebirth. With a mastery of colour and a precision that borders on the extraordinary, she transforms the most ephemeral of materials into something timeless.

Her work has no equivalent. It is at once delicate and intense, elaborate and simple, humble in its material and breathtaking in its execution. Before her pieces, audiences move invariably through the same stages: disbelief, curiosity, then wonder.

Larisa Safaryan is represented by Jakobson Gallery, in the heart of the Marais in Paris.