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Laura White

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Exploring the language of sculpture, Laura White uses a range of materials from everyday objects to constructed matter. She is interested in our relationship and negotiation with the ‘stuff’ of the world, from the mediated experience of images, such as in books, on posters and the internet, to first-hand encounters with objects and matter.

Most recently White has been interested in the idea of a haptic experience in relation to imagery, where one has a physical relationship to an image and encounters them through a sculptural language.

By representing images in this way the viewer confronts the image both physically and spatially, inviting them to dissolve their subjectivity in the close and bodily contact with the image. Within a language of sculpture she explores the sculptural qualities of images, such as using image as matter, sculpting it to create complex and colourful forms that both displace and destroy the meaning of the image.

For example, by physically manipulating images by projecting video onto assemblages of objects in a darkened space, so that the images literally wrap themselves around objects, or cutting images from magazines and using them as sculpting matter, like one would use clay or plaster to tear, crumple and glue into shape and form.

This sculptural manipulation of images, explores a direct engagement with the audience, one that is both visceral and erotic, and plays with the relationship between representation and abstraction, as recognisable images are broken down into abstract form.

The boundaries between image and object become blurred to challenge the viewers’ relationship to both, making it possible for images to exist as solid matter in the here and now, and objects to disperse into a mediated world of imagery.

 

related links

http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/art/research/staff/lw/01.php

http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/profile/lwhite

http://www.re-title.com/artists/Laura-White.asp

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