Wallpaper and Negligee (Slipping...) in "Manufractured" at Museum of Contemporary Craft

…An ‘organic cyborg nature’ of the human is unveiled in Laura Splan’s work…Splan’s mixture of scientific and domestic…guides the viewer through an array of captivating approaches that challenge not only current media ideologies but also conceptual paradigms underlying today’s digital art, the question of disembodiment…

...While it is easy to emphasize the shock effect of Laura Splan’s work, it is much more interesting to make the viewer aware of the meaning behind it...

...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...

...Shocking, sexy and uncomfortable are all words that could be used to describe the anatomical art of Laura Splan...these...pieces imply notions of femininity, domesticity, and familiarity alongside confrontational ideas of indulgence, mortality, and body politics...

...Such is the nature of Splan’s work though, with its willingness to explore what happens when you combine the familiar or domestic with the less comfortable realities of the human body and medical biology...although it would be easy to focus on the shock-value of Splan’s work...there’s something far more revealing about having to re-think an image after its process is shown to lie a little closer to the bone than we’re comfortable with...”