Laura Gonzalez

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To everyone reading this: it’s party shoe time!

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Juicy Phallus

Juicy Phallus by Caroline Noordijk in collaboration with Kyla Elliott.
This made me smile after a hard day’s work. Finally, someone has put Starck (and the masculinity he represents) back in its place. With thanks to Alastair, who can always make a perceptive comment or two…

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Sometimes, after analysis, I feel just like my objects

Email received today at 14:38:
Dear artist,
We would like to thank you again for contributing to Objects in Waiting and to GIFT. Over the six days that GIFT took place, 83 of the exhibits were given away to visitors; however, we regret that the object that you contributed was not one of these, as no suitable [...]

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Objects in Waiting #2

Documentation from the Objects in Waiting exhibition have been uploaded here.
Information on what I submitted can be found on the exhibition guide and video (exhibit number 78).
Here is a picture:

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Please report on any instances of change of direction

It is all gone quiet in my seduction world. I have been battling with issues of enjoyment, of desire; trying to understand where, if anywhere, the paths of seduction, perversion and fetishism cross; deciding what the picture frame and the frame of fantasy have in common; finding the key to the Lacanian universe; attempting to [...]

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About Me

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.