Laura
Langer

My work is pieces. 

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Forcibly separated disembodied pieces yearn for wholeness, gravitating toward one another through time and consciousness.

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The process is one of resistance, feminine punk rebellion, in protest and resolution of this elemental wrong. 

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My art is fragmented and layered, reflecting reassembly of isolated pieces into newly formed entities.  

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Through imperfect repair these individual fragments achieve fusion and regeneration via resistance, exhibiting these phenomena in vision, language, and sound.  

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The cumulative process of drawing with paint, layering instruments, and structuring syntax creates independently forged beings. 

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This forced separation and its defiant resolution is rooted in the earliest theft of self, the commodification of human life at its origin, a collective core injury to kindred femininity. 

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When a person enters the world already subject to transaction, exchange, and displacement, the self degrades to a disjointed and performative negotiation. 

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Deficient existence depends on a staged, externally authored reality. 

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Sunk below this theater are remnants longing for cohesion and resurrection in the absence of hope and truth. 

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In my work, the whole has been reconstructed from pieces, with Humpty Dumpty consequences. 

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Full resurrection is not possible. 

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The forged self is forever altered. 

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What emerges from this alchemy is not recovery of the original, but others birthed imperfectly as patched paintings, music, and narratives. 

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These forged forms are vast and omnipresent, untethered from their historical confines yet fiercely grounded in hard-won selfhood. 

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My work lives in that space and in its inevitable outcome.

 

These visual and auditory punk acts of feminine defiance exist as a reclamation of the aggrieved, a necessary remedy to recalibrate the world.