个人简介
Laila Marie Costa is a Melbourne based artist and curator who works across contemporary jewellery, collage, assemblage, installation and occasionally sound. The nebulous spaces between fine art, craft and design are the areas that intrigue and inspire the bulk of her investigations.
Costa’s working process is based on collecting the waste and refuse of consumer culture from her daily domestic and work life. The debris is sorted by obsessive methodologies that allow the materials to infer the form. Her creations are further informed by her Italian heritage, domesticity, feminism, environmental issues, art history, materiality and humour.
She has completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a Graduate Diploma from the Victorian School of Arts, Melbourne.
In 2019 she has exhibited locally and internationally, including Schmuck, Munich, Collectiva, Porto, and Body Control, Arnhem Museum.
Costa co-founded TempContemp, a contemporary jewellery project space within Northcity4, Brunswick, where is a current studio artist.
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- Image information
- Title: Thank You Big Pharma (Dangles)
Necklace, 2018
Hand fabrication: Cutting, drilling, assembling
Materials: Sterling silver and Monofeme pill packets
- Title: Thank You Big Pharma (Amulet)
Necklace, 2018
Hand fabrication: Cutting, drilling, assembling
Materials: Sterling silver, Monofeme pill packets and collected object
- Title: Thank You Big Pharma (Ziggurat Cascade)
Necklace, 2018
Hand fabrication: Cutting, drilling, assembling
Materials: Sterling silver and Monofeme pill packets
- Description on theme. (196 words)
Thank you Big Pharma is a series of necklaces made from my personal hoard of contraceptive pills packets collected over many years. These blister pill packets, some of which still contain their contents, have been sitting in a cardboard box for years alongside the other pharmaceutical packets of other pills and tablets ingested.
The contraceptive pill has enabled me a life unimaginable to previous generations of women and for this I am eternally grateful. Multi-national pharmaceutical companies continue to explore new medications that have enabled us a longer and healthier life. They alter the natural lifecycles of growth and evolution via processes such as in vitro fertilisation, genetic modification and cloning. The speed at which these technological advances are moving in this digital revolution prompts society to ask questions and reflect.
The necklaces are a continuum of the concepts and materials that are my current concerns. Through the use of waste materials such as plastic pill packets I refer to environmentalism and sustainability challenges. Feminism, domesticity, capitalism and humour form part of my personal narratives. They are anti-fertility necklaces that refer to history, such as image 2 via spiritual amulets, and image 3, to Mesopotamian ziggurats.
