Laura Marschar

Bio

Sometimes I want to make myself so small that I would fit into a hand. So I could be protected by a hand. A hand making me disappear. A hand being able to crush me. And sometimes I want my hands to be so big that I could hold a person in it, so big that it could hold all the pain in the world. Maybe some people already have big hands. Or at least they have excavators and cranes, bombs and tanks. They crush things, worlds with their hands. People say that we are ants to the giants and giants to the ants. I too crush things. I too leave marks, traces. I work across sculpture, drawing, video and writing, often incorporating tactile materials such as soap, wax, clay, paper and plastics. I like exploring how these materials respond, how they move, push back, disappear and remember. Recently I have been interested in holding things, how we hold things together, how we keep things in place, without breaking away, how we resist, and how we put things on hold, on pause. I am moved by the in-between places, the quiet moments when we pause, wait, everyday actions that are often slipping through our fingers and are hard to grasp. I try to explore how we touch the world and how the world moves, changes, touches us in return. For now, I work with regular office printers and print with them on found plastic bags, using accessible materials and ways of working.