Laura Gonzalez

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7 Mar 2006

Yulia Tymoshenko

With thanks to Al for the pictures and the introduction.

The image of former Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, certainly feels like finding a palm tree in the desert. With her hair (which she had to demonstrate was real), her symetric face and her dress sense, she breaks the continuum of political / parlamentary life. At the same time, she infuses it with an unsettling, slightly gothic element that perverts the greay suit qualities of its environment. Just look at the dress…



Seductive? Possibly. Especially if seduction estems from a particular way of being itself…

Posted in Blog,Seductive people,Seductive things


2 Responses to “Yulia Tymoshenko”

  1. Lobo said:

    Yulia Tymoshenko, seductive? Most definitely! Especially with figure hugging grey dress. She managed to seduce a nation.

  2. Eugenio said:

    Lanciano, Italy, Oct. 17, 2007.
    Dear Sirs:
    from our Western European Standards this Lady seems to be smart and inteligent!.
    She has a lot of courage!.
    Signed,
    Eugenio.

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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.