STRAIGHT TALK
with Laura Splan
Blood Scarf
(2002). 14” x
20”.
Chromogenic
prints. Image
courtesy of
the artist.
Laura Splan works in a variety of media including collage, sculpture, and video, making work that reflects cultural attitudes about the human body through biologically and
medically inspired imagery. Splan lives and works in New York, NY.
SAiA: While you don't explicitly refer to yourself as a science-based artist, your work surrounds the ideas, both cultural and medical,
about the human body. How did medical, scientific, and bodily themes become your artistic
focus?
LS: I have always been fascinated by the mutable perceptions we have regarding the human
body—how our reactions to biological form and
function can fluctuate so dramatically. I have
done several projects using blood as imagery
and as material. I often attem BF