Laura Yuile
Glasgow School Of Art
My work is created through repetitive, time consuming methods of working; a fetishization of labor. I view such activities as a form of self-control. I am interested in this idea of the body – as a biological whole, but also its instincts, desires and obsessions – being 'disciplined' by various techniques of control. These ideas are explored alongside my own personal struggle to control my work, and the 'disorder' I confront myself with. One aspect of my work attempts to control another; new work consumes old; a constant dismantling and reassembling of meaning and order. Through an exploration of how 'meaning' is injected into one's life through personal rituals and rules, I consider how these beliefs and attitudes can be expressed through 'style', and what happens when the individual becomes 'lost' in a mess of bodily, and material, excesses.
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