Lauren Opia is a multidisciplinary visual artist, animator and filmmaker based in South Africa. Her practice explores the shifting states between sentimentality, lived experience and the human psyche, with a focus on how individual perception shaped by one’s unique Umwelt informs and alters our internal and external worlds.

Working primarily with ceramics and mixed media animation, Opia constructs intimate, often surreal environments that reflect deeply personal narratives. Through her use of color, figuration and tactile materials, she bridges emotional memory with imagined space, creating visual dialogues that are at once introspective and expansive. Her work invites viewers into a layered psychological landscape where vulnerability, transformation and subjectivity intertwine.