In the mainstream Spanish film All men are the same (Manuel Gomez Pereira, 1994), three flat-sharing bachelors hire a young maid to tidy their home. She falls in love with the handsome one of them but, feeling betrayed, she decides to leave her job and steal some of their property. She picks up strange, menacing, [...]
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“The wood block Äî a tried and true way to hold your knives, but not so hot when it comes to displaying them. The Voodoo Knife Display ($108) helps by turning the idea of a woodblock into a voodoo-esque doll. Five specifically placed holes hold five quality knives, helping along the feeling of satisfaction when [...]
Seduction as an inintelligible, unattainable quality. How to research its aesthetic qualities?
Cathy de Monchaux, Erase
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Reviewing and adapting some of Guy Julier’s thoughts in his book on the Culture of Design:
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Laura Gonzalez is an artist and writer. Her practice encompasses drawing, photography and sculpture, and her work has been exhibited in the UK, Spain and Portugal. She has participated in numerous conferences, including Research into Practice (2008), College Arts Association and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (2007). When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx's footsteps with her camera, she lectures postgraduate students at the Glasgow School of Art.
She is currently immersed in an interdisciplinary project, which investigates psychoanalytic approaches to making and understanding objects of seduction within the fields of fine art, consumption studies and material culture. Her research includes 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 seeks refuge and inspiration in psycho-geography, especially if it takes her to shopping centres, those mysterious places.