2009
remnant cosmetic facial peel sculpture cast from artist's breasts, mixed media
14 H × 6 W × 3 D in (35.56 H × 15.24 W × 7.62 D cm)
Purse is constructed with remnant facial peel from the artist's breasts. The object wavers between the delicately feminine and the grotesquely clinical in its fragile and distorted state.
Purse is constructed with remnant facial peel from the artist's breasts. The object wavers between the delicately feminine and the grotesquely clinical in its fragile and distorted state.
…Laura Splan presents the human-scaled, handmade, and the physical body through poetic mediation, reminding us of the inescapable material body…
...Laura Splan disturbs our notions of beauty and femininity by crafting traditionally feminine objects out of unpredictable materials. By using the body as material for textile-based craft, historically thought of as women’s work, Splan shifts the conversation about her work in a way that hearkens back to Miriam Schapiro’s femmage pieces. But in its nearly painful intimacy with the body, Splan’s work has a fresh and universal application: all viewers have their own bodies to contemplate...
...Laura Splan transforms our human temporality into both comforting and unsettling art. It’s magical, heart-stopping...
Exhibitions: “Re/Formations” Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College
