John Stezaker, Third Person II, 1988-1990, Collage, Framed
John Stezaker, Film Portrait (She II), 2005, Collage, 25.5 x 19.5 cm
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The couch is decidedly one of the weirdest experiences I have ever had. I do not think I can even begin to explain its strangeness without getting into theoretical frameworks around transference and the blind gaze or just plain clich?©s. I cannot say I liked it wholly, but I felt something intense after the experience [...]
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Please remember, before attempting to write anything on seduction:1. Seduction is a relational enterprise;2. Seduction invokes the possibility of a change, from positive to negative;3. Seduction may lead me astray in my efforts to theorise, research, examine, explore; 4. Seduction will resist any mode of production;5. Seduction (first order simulacra) is what my research is [...]
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Two of my favourite books on seduction (Titian: Nymph and Shepherd and Les Liaisons Dangereuses) are epistolar. This, together with the impossibility of touching the shoes I described below suggests that distance (appropriate distance, not too close, not too far) may be an essential component of seduction.
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I can’t remember what were my expectations on the Sunday I chose to see Manolo Blahnik’s exhibition at the Design Museum in London. What I do remember, however is being very surprised by it. The shoes, displayed like unique art pieces in theatrical settings, had about them all the strangeness of Surrealist artworks. In the [...]
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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.