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Laura Schawelka
Laura Schawelka

Laura Schawelka

Double Issues

ART

120 Pages, 8.25 x 11.25

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $34.95 (US $34.95) (CA $46.95)

Publication Date: July 2019

ISBN 9783947563241

Rights: US & CA

DCV (Jul 2019)
Edition Cantz

Price: $34.95
 
 

Overview

In her often space-consuming installations, Laura Schawelka makes use of photography, video, and sculpture in a multilayered dialog in which traditional definitions such as subject, image content, or image carrier are called into question. Images are shown as larger than life or miniaturized; they become backgrounds or are equipped with props. In her latest work, the artist focuses on the role of photography in the development of modern consumer society—from the first department stores in Paris to the present day. In doing so, she shines a light on online trade, among other things: What does it mean if goods are only communicated through other goods, computers, cell phones, tablets—in short, screens? If feeling something in a store is replaced by swiping on a touchscreen? If this distance, this withholding of the genuine object, is precisely what prompts the desire for it in the first place?

Author Biography

Laura Schawelka received a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in 2015. In 2013, she studied at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt. She lives and works in Berlin and Paris.

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