Laura Splan
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Domesticity
Group Exhibition
"Unraveling" in "The Hidden Side of Lace" at CC De Ververij
exhibition exploring interpretations of lace with Laura Splan, Wim Delvoye, James Lee Byars, Dirk Braeckman, Guy Mees, René Heyvaert, Tatjana Wolska...
2022
Writing
Host: Reflections on Disease, Domesticity, and Decorum
short story about long silences in the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
2022
Artwork
"Unraveling Together"
participatory textiles collaboration with recorded Zoom performances and hand-made weavings
2020
Artwork
"Material Expressions No. 2"
biometric performance with motorized sculpture and sound actuated by heartbeat of knitter
2016
Commission
"Host" in "Re/Presenting HIV/AIDS" at Van/Every Smith Gallery
installation in exhibition with Laura Splan, Keith Haring, Frank Moore, Robert Farber, Mike Hoolboom, Frederick Weston...
2014
Artwork
"Convergence"
installation with photography and sculpture made in collaboration with Ariana Page Russell at Magnan Metz Gallery
2014
Commission
"Trousseau" in "Unravelling the Manor" at Preston Manor
facial peel sculptures in conceptual craft exhibition with Laura Splan, Kira O’Reilly, Catherine Bertola, Matt Smith, Maria Rivans...
2010
Artwork
"Exogenous"
paintings with varying dilutions of blood stenciled through doilies onto watercolor paper
2010
Artwork
"Subcutaneous"
hand embroidery of text on remnant cosmetic facial skin peel
2009
Commission
"Doilies" and "Trousseau" in "Re/Formations" at Van Every/Smith Galleries
textile sculptures in exhibition with Laura Splan, Rebecca Horn, Nancy Fried, Harriet Sanderson, Judith Scott...
2009
Artwork
"Wallpaper" & "Negligee" in "Manufractured" at Museum of Contemporary Craft
blood wallpaper and facial peel sculpture in exhibition with Laura Splan, Sonya Clark, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Marcel Wanders, Devorah Sperber...
2008
Artwork
"Incomplete Retrieval"
drawings of lace rendered in blood on watercolor paper
2007
Artwork
"Elaborative Encoding"
drawing of lace rendered in blood
2007
Artwork
"X-Ray Visions & Morphine Dreams"
photographic light boxes with digitally composited X-rays created from found images
2005
Artwork
"Doilies (SARS, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, Hepadna)"
digitally fabricated lace sculptures depicting viruses (SARS, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, Hepadna)
2004
Artwork
"Wallpaper/Samples"
wallpaper samples hand-painted with blood
2003
Artwork
"Blood Scarf"
photographs of speculative medical apparatus hand-knit into intravenous scarf from clear vinyl tubing
2002
Artwork
"Exam Gown"
hand-knit textiles sculpture with large-scale photographic portraits that reimagines the institutional hospital gown
2002
Artwork
"Prozac, Thorazine, Zoloft"
hand latch hooked soft sculptures of oversized antipsychotic and antidepressant pills
2000