Laura Laviv (b. 2001) is a visual artist who graduated from the Graphic Arts Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2026. Her artistic practice unfolds at the intersection of contemporary printmaking and textile art, combining traditional needlework techniques with an exploration of pictorial representation, memory, and temporality.
Crochet occupies a central position in her practice, which she transforms into a distinctive image-making system by integrating it with printmaking processes. Laviv translates archival family photographs into the grid structure of filet crochet, occasionally employing the resulting textile surfaces as printing matrices. In these works, the image exists simultaneously as a material structure and a fragile imprint: distortions, displacements, and absences render visible the inherently transformative nature of remembrance. The repetitive, time-intensive process of needlework becomes a vehicle of meaning in its own right, while a technique traditionally associated with intimate, domestic settings acquires a monumental, spatial dimension.
In Laviv’s work, personal and collective memory are inseparable. Drawing on fragments of family history, her pieces investigate intergenerational relationships, loss, and the transmission of memory. The tension between the printed image and the physical presence of textile establishes a particularly nuanced relationship between visibility and absence, preservation and disappearance.
Her diploma project, Kesher (Connection), received the Rector’s Award at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts’ Best of Diploma exhibition. In 2026, she was also awarded the MAMŰ Society Prize at the Szeklerland Graphic Art Biennial and the Rudnay Gyula Grand Prize at the Hódmezővásárhely Autumn Exhibition. Her works have been presented in exhibitions in Hungary and internationally, including Vienna, Prague, Poznań, and Cluj-Napoca.