Laura Duffy

Fruit flesh bless (2016)

11 min 49 secSingle channel / 3 channel installation / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

Dually conceived for both gallery and installation, Fruit flesh bless was originally presented as three channel work for three hanging cell phones. On CIRCUIT it is presented for the online environment, as an integrated three channel work.

    Other works by Laura Duffy

    A collection of flowers and meat-like fluid and textures on a pink table.
    Laura Duffy

    Food Fat Insanity (2015)

    Using food as an oil paint, Duffy draws on gestural techniques found within the world of modern advertising.

    Food Fat Insanity
    Black and white static with the words remember and remembering super-imposed.
    Laura Duffy

    i remember remembering (2017)

    Personal archives are pixellated and perforated by failures of memory.

    i remember remembering
    A white screen with onscreen text reading, I think it's a close up of food.
    Laura Duffy

    observer (Hive Mind) (2018)

    Natural imagery is glitched and warped.

    observer (Hive Mind)
    A heavily digitally manipulated image, pixels obscure the image of something silver.
    Laura Duffy

    the word was made flesh (Hive Mind) (2018)

    Natural imagery is glitched and warped.

    the word was made flesh (Hive Mind)
    Laura Duffy on CIRCUIT

    Related essay

    A fascinated view of crushed fruit, glitter and the sheen of organic materials under pressure

    Into the Abject: Looking at Laura Duffy

    Essay
    By Priscilla Howe · December 18, 2017

    CIRCUIT's 2017 Curatorial Intern Priscilla Howe writes on the video work of Laura Duffy, and her intersection of the beautiful and the grotesque.

    Into the abject: looking at Laura Duffy

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