About_
b.1995, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
German/Lithuanian
Asselborn’s work explores thresholds, structures and mechanisms of our mental states through ideas around perception: explored often as visual phenomena, experiences, memory and stories. Being interested in the performative and sculptural element of photography, she experiments with these ideas as physical layers. Acts of delayering and re-layering, taken apart and re-connecting speak about the instability and desire for stability of ourselves and our surroundings and the ultimate goal to understand, cope, resolve and reassure. Coming from a neurodivergent perspective, Asselborn often moves between analogue and digital material and interprets looking as a physical performance of individuality and as an indicator of difference.
The photographic frame as a physical entity presents itself as a space that can be paralysing and alienating. It discusses this space as psychological state ,reshaped and re-interpreted. Recently work has looked into what remains of unresolved trauma and memory and how fear and anxiety is processed, looking into the Afterimage and the processing of the colour yellow as continuous visual tool in her work. Often materials that have a digital quality are used that express themselves through deprivation or saturation of colour.
@laura_maria_asselborn
2019-2021: MA Photography, Royal College of Art
2016-2019: BA Fine Art Practice, University of Brighton
Showing Solo:
2024: Protruding, Black Box Projectspace, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham
2024: University Centre Hastings Hastings, 5th Floor Gallery, Hastings
2023: No Colour Yellow, Project 78, St Leonards on Sea
Groupshows/Awards/Publication/Residencies
2024: All we have time for, Bus Stop Studios, Babes in Arms Collective, Hastings
2023: F##k the Giclée, Solaris, St Leonards on Sea
2023: Radiant Objects, Electro Studio Projects, St Leonards
2022: Time Space Money Grant, A-n funded by Arts Council England
2022: Newhaven Project Space, Newhaven
2021: After the High Tide, Publication, Folium Publishing lead by Tom Lovelace
2021: After the High Tide, Cromwell Place, London
2021: Public Collection, Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland
2020: Southwark Park Gallery Exhibition, London
2020: WIP Show, Royal College of Art, Battersea, London
2020 Cyberstock, Digital zine, Royal College of Art
2019: Summer Show, Solaris Print, St Leonards on Sea
2019: Rising Talent 5, Hastings Arts Forum, St Leonards on Sea
2019: Chaos is a friend of mine, St Leonards on Sea
2019: Tonic, 5th base Gallery, Brick Lane, London
2019: The Kino Teatre, St. Leonards on Sea
2018: Residency Open Studios 2018, Athena Standards, Athens, Greece