Lari Medawar identifies as a trans, autistic and POC cultural worker. After studying at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) and the Lausanne University of Teacher Education (HEP), they co-founded the The F(ass)tival enthusiastically offers, defends, and shares a positive and inclusive vision of bodies, identities and sexualities. They also develop curatorial projects focused on sharing the lived experiences and knowledge of marginalised or discriminated-against people.

Their practice and reflections are rooted in queer studies and Crip theory, as evidenced in particular by the exhibition Sweet Crip presented at Krone/Couronne in Biel (Ch). In 2025, they were co-curator in residence at the FMAC — the City of Geneva’s Municipal Contemporary Art Fund — where they helped to raise the profile of artists and works that bear witness to the existence and realities of marginalised people.

Alongside their curatorial work, Lari Medawar develops a practice of writing and performative reading centred on their lived experience of disability and chronic illness. From the private sphere to the professional context, they explore crises, the loss of words, exhaustion, as well as the articulation of their thoughts and perceptions, outside the mechanisms of masking they employ in the able-bodied world. They write and read without putting on a show, using whatever energy is available, at the risk of disappointment and ridicule, but always driven by a genuine generosity: that of revealing themselves without a mask.