What would I do without my peer groups? A very interesting discussion on that foto here, here and here. In Spanish though, and with bad language, as it should be…
Posted in Blog, PhD, Seduction, That photo
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.
Listen, Laura. Öcoute.
So much interested as you are in that matter of seduction, till the point of deeply
diving into it, and studing it….and keeping close to the question on photos’ (not
only yours) misteries…I would like to point out to you, not a photo in this case,
but a painting. A frozen seductive instant, quand mÕme: The Melun Virgin, by Jean
Fouquet.
Take a look, a seducting one:
http://hexagonobabel.wordpress.com/2006/06/29/pruebas-humanidades-uoc-junio-2006/
Besazos.