Fharid LaTorre (b. 1999) is an artist raised at the edge of the Everglades, living between Miami and New York. He graduated with a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2022 His practice explores the beginning point of fracturing, where rupture, healing, and regeneration coexist, approaching the body as a fluid construction shaped by the encounter between intimate experience and collective structures. Working through materially driven forms informed by medical and industrial systems, he regularly employs carved wood, cast and sintered metal, and apparatuses of his own invention in order to examine the body as a porous site, the thin line between support and restraint, and the mutations that emerge outside individual control. Informed by an attention to infrastructures of extraction and circulation that interpenetrate human life at both massive and molecular scales, his work considers moments of capture and the (non)consensual illusions that stabilize them, often by repurposing tools and systems beyond their intended use. Across these forms, the body becomes a site where territory, time, and social experience converge, and where these relationships can be inhabited, staged, and transformed.
