Upcoming Talks & Screening
Stuart Croft Returns, Whitechapel Gallery
Thursday 2 May, 6.30pm
Jennifer Lauren Martin (b. 1990) is a London-based writer/director and artist-filmmaker. Lauren Martin's interdisciplinary practice spans fine art, film, and writing, focusing on interpersonal belonging. Their characters frequently undergo a journey in which psychological tension and drama manifest as physical effects. Bodies, in their breakdowns, surface what has been felt and suppressed. In this way, the body becomes another actor or writer in the narrative.
Influenced by film critic Angelica Jade Bastién's term The Feminine Grotesque, Lauren Martin sees this as the twitch manifesting in our outward presentation. This relation is rooted in psychological discomfort in being and a fear of never reaching a place of understanding with ourselves and our connections to others. These internal/external conflicts play out within Lauren Martin's work with attention to emotional realism, somatics, and the sensorial. Across materials and mediums, they aim to stretch and prod what can be made perceptible.
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