I am reading Baudrillard’s The ecstasy of communication, by far the lightest of his books. I can say I am even enjoying it. While reading it, I can’t take this piece off my mind. This is my favourite 2006 Degree Show piece so far… Its mirrors, its nostalgia, its absence are inescapable… A riddle, a challenge, just that which is at the heart of seduction.
Leah Avril Gourley
BA(Hons ) Fine Art Sculpture
The Glasgow School of Art
Posted in Blog,Seductive artworks,Seductive things,Shoes
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.
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