Laura White
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White is interested the way we read human intervention and its control over nature. How nature through the frameworks we set up can seduce us and provide us with unthreatening pleasure and entertainment, like visiting an aquarium, a zoo or watching wildlife documentaries on TV.
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'Knuckle Paunch' 2008 Mixed media.
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'Knuckle Paunch' 2008 Mixed media.
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'Yea & Nay' 2008 Mixed media
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This process of visual engagement she creates by sourcing primarily photographic imagery of the natural world (still and moving), is then shattered by the viewers acknowledgement of the positioning, exaggeration and awkward arrangements and manipulation of these images, or the presence of objects in the space, which slowly reveal a less entertaining perspective, one that reflects and explores the manipulation of nature and its threatening instability.
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Yea & Nay' 2008 mixed media
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