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Laura White
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'If I had a monkey I wouldn’t need a TV' 2008
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Laura White lives and works in London.
Exploring the language of sculpture Laura White uses a range of materials from everyday objects to constructed matter. She is interested in our relationship and negotiation with the ‘stuff’ of the world, from the mediated experience of images, such as in books, on posters and the internet, to first-hand encounters with objects and matter.
White recently has been interested in the idea of a haptic experience in relation to imagery, where one has a physical relationship to an image and encounters them through a sculptural language. By representing images in this way the viewer confronts the image both physically and spatially, inviting them to dissolve their subjectivity in the close and bodily contact with the image.
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'If I had a monkey I wouldn’t need a TV' 2008
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For example, by physically manipulating images by projecting video onto assemblages of objects in a darkened space, so that the images literally wrap themselves around objects, or cutting images from magazines and using them as sculpting matter, like one would use clay or plaster to tear, crumple and glue into shape and form.
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'Bring home the bacon' Video and mixed media 08
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'Bring home the bacon' Video and mixed media 08
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'Project at Christ Church' 05 Installation
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This sculptural manipulation of images, explores a direct engagement with the audience, one that is both visceral and erotic, and plays with the relationship between representation and abstraction, as recognisable images are broken down into abstract form. The boundaries between image and object become blurred to challenge the viewers’ relationship to both, making it possible for images to exist as solid matter in the here and now, and objects to disperse into a mediated world of imagery.
White’s work looks at the experience of viewing images through technology. With our familiarity of looking at images both still and moving through the flat frame, such as with TV and cinema, technology has the ability to sanitize what we see creating a distorted understanding of the world we live in. Using technology such as video projection onto objects she disrupts the image so that it is no longer neatly framed and flawless, but incomplete, tactile and imaginative. Often taking the natural world as her subject matter and exploring imagery in this way charges the images, and connects them to a more direct and real experience, like engaging with nature first hand.
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Laura White graduated from Goldsmiths College, London in 2004 with a M.A. Fine Art.
Currently she is a Lecturer at Goldsmiths College,
London on the B.A. Fine Art course and a Senior Lecturer on the B.A. Fine Art course at Manchester Metropolitian University.
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'Family Likeness' 2008 Mixed media
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RECENT EXHIBITIONS
If I had a monkey I wouldn’t need a TV: Castlefield Gallery, Manchester 2008/9, Powwow Gallery-33 Berlin 2007, Play: Bearspace@The Cello Factory London 2007, Multicomplexificationalities: Nunnery Gallery London 2007, Eau Savage Part 2: Fieldgate Gallery London 2007, Beauty and the Beast: Fieldgate Gallery London 2007, Altered Beast: Three Colts Gallery London 2006, Laura White New Work: Firstsite Gallery Colchester Essex 2006, Yabadabadoo: Cell Project Space London 2005, Urban Formalism: Cortex Athletico and Museum of Contemporary Art Bordeaux France 2005.
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