Laura Gonzalez

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Appearance Stripped Bare

The more I read about him, the more puzzled I am by Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors Even). I get as far as understanding that it is a painting of a machine and that The Green Box is roughly its instruction manual. I also more or less understand the [...]

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Animated Glass #2

Jean Suquet with Digital Equipment France (Arnaud Gaudinat, Alain Antone, Thierry Haukingham), 1993

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Animated Glass

Jean Suquet with Digital Equipment France (Arnaud Gaudinat, Alain Antone, Thierry Haukingham), 1993

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Why Psychonalysis?

Dany Nobus’ session on psychoanalytic method was extraordinary. I have been toying with the idea of using psychoanalysis as the core logic underpinning my research but couldn’t really articulate why I had unconsciously made this choice. My explanation was a shallow one: Lacan’s objet petit a is related to seduction and desire in a way [...]

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About Me

Laura Gonzalez is an artist and writer. Her recent practice encompasses film, dance, photography and text, and her work has been exhibited and published in the UK, Spain and Portugal. She has spoken at numerous conferences and events, including the Museum for the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, the Medical Museum in Copenhagen, College Arts Association and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx’s footsteps with her camera, she lectures postgraduate students at the Glasgow School of Art.

Her doctoral project, completed in 2010, investigated psychoanalytic approaches to making and understanding objects of seduction, including an examination of parallels between artistic and analytic practices, a study of Manolo Blahnik’s shoes as objects of desire, a disturbing encounter with Marcel Duchamp’s last work, and the creation of a psychoanalytically inspired Discourse of the Artefact, a framework enabling the circulation of questions and answers through a relational approach to artworks.

She is currently immersed in an interdisciplinary project exploring knowledge and the body of the hysteric.