25th October 2022 – Laura Porter

Laura Porter’s practice addresses the way we interact with space and materials through a simultaneous absence and presence of the body, in order to understand personal responsibility versus collective encounters; imagining a world void of humankind, where our debris forms a new consciousness that grows and shifts like the natural world in which it exists. The work deals with themes of development and decay, the dual presence of which forms a critique of productivity against the backdrop of growing, global eco-consciousness, and explores the body as a site of action; a renewable energy source.