Mourning bows
Gas mask
Gaz mask and stainless steel bow
© Laurent La Gamba, 2016
Stillborn child rocking horse gift
Rocking horse and stainless steel bow
© Laurent La Gamba, 2016
Orthopaedic corset
Orthopedic corset and stainless steel bow
© Laurent La Gamba. 2016
Landmine detector
Landmine detector and stainless steel bow
© Laurent La Gamba, 2016
Gas mask
Gaz mask and stainless steel bow
© Laurent La Gamba, 2016
Orthopaedic corset
Orthopedic corset and stainless steel bow
© Laurent La Gamba, 2016
Context
About the project
The Mourning bows series is one facet of "Pandemonium of Versatile Objects".
The series Mourning bows plays on the ambiguity of the idea of gifts by diverting their colour codes (black knots) and juxtaposing hem with objects that possess morbid and deadly connotations.
"Pandemonium of Versatile Objects"
Laurent La Gamba’s most recent project is a series of sculptures/installations. Entitled Pandemonium of Versatile Objects this project explores mass production and consumerism and the role they play in formulating memories and identity, through the visual coding of celebratory gift bows.
The Pandemonium of Versatile Objects series began in 2016 and is divided into several chapters. It plays on the precariousness, the obsolescence of objects and their possible regeneration through art. Producing a highly aestheticized and tuned down vision made of glossy paper and shiny ribbons, which often evoke both childhood and pleasure but also mass production and consumer society at large; this project also, depending on the works, conveys a deep feeling of embarrassment and discomfort (e.g "Anti-gifts series" or "Mourning bows series").