LAURA ASSELBORN

protruding

9/1/24-29/1/24

LAURA ASSELBORN

protruding

Works on display at Blackbox Project space are a continuing of Asselborn’s recent solo show No Colour Yellow looking at the afterimage and what lingers on from unresolved memories of trauma amidst the visual process of the colour yellow. 

Asselborn’s work explores thresholds, structures, and mechanisms of our mental states through ideas around perception, looking into visual phenomena, experiences, memory, and dreams. Being interested in the performative and sculptural element of photography, she experiments with these ideas as physical layers. Acts of de-layering and re-layering, taken apart and making new connections aim to speak about the instability of ourselves and our surroundings and the ultimate goal to understand, cope, resolve, and reassure.  

The photographic becomes an alienating and paralysing space of the mind in a mixed media display that often moves between analogue and digital material. 

Coming from a neurodivergent perspective, the interest in the physicality of looking as an indicator of difference dictates the forms and processes of which projects are visualised. Hence a push and pull of focus and the play of absence and presence within image-making plays an important role in her work, as seen in the work Stair, it might never happen, displayed at Blackbox. This polaroid image led to a 1:1 build of perspex stairs titled Protruding modelled after stairs in the artist’s home only as risers, having left out the treads. The work now has been partially reimagined in this show. 

Biog:

Laura Maria Asselborn is a Lithuanian/German mixed media artist and has been studying and working in the UK for several years. She has had group shows in Athens and London as well as her recent Solo Show at Project 78 in St Leonards on Sea. Asselborn completed a BA in fine art Practices at university of Brighton, and an MA in photography from the Royal College of Art London.

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