Laura Guiseppi
Flattened bodies, crooked bodies, and barren bodies; bodies that do not fit into the boundaries of the so-called normal. Laura Guiseppi’s sculptures touches upon the cultural history of the vulva, artificial insemination, fertilization and the representation of the body. At first glance abstract, but after a while you sense small hints of the human pelvis: labia minora and minora, eggs, clitoris and ovaries all in pastels, placed on or wrapped in latex.
Her latest series of work exhibited at the gallery Lagune Ouest resembles some sort of being, barely alive with features suggesting kinship to an octopus. A flat curved body with arms that might enable the being to move. Is it an eye or an egg that it is carrying? Some are placed on latex mats suggesting a kind of nest where maybe fertilisation or incubation of the egg/eye is possible or simply a place to find rest and peace.
Laura Guiseppi (1989, DK) holds a MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2021). She has recently been showing work at Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus), Lagune Ouest (Copenhagen).
Laura Guiseppi
Flattened bodies, crooked bodies, and barren bodies; bodies that do not fit into the boundaries of the so-called normal. Laura Guiseppi’s sculptures touches upon the cultural history of the vulva, artificial insemination, fertilization and the representation of the body. At first glance abstract, but after a while you sense small hints of the human pelvis: labia minora and minora, eggs, clitoris and ovaries all in pastels, placed on or wrapped in latex.
Her latest series of work exhibited at the gallery Lagune Ouest resembles some sort of being, barely alive with features suggesting kinship to an octopus. A flat curved body with arms that might enable the being to move. Is it an eye or an egg that it is carrying? Some are placed on latex mats suggesting a kind of nest where maybe fertilisation or incubation of the egg/eye is possible or simply a place to find rest and peace.
Laura Guiseppi (1989, DK) holds a MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2021). She has recently been showing work at Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus), Lagune Ouest (Copenhagen).