Lauren Skogstad explores the disruptive monumentality of a female figure wearing an extraordinary red dress of epic proportions, as she encounters the everyday world of the city.
The wearer of the dress inescapably undergoes a metamorphosis to become a character from a fantastic, dream-like or folkloric world – and simultaneously, as we witness the spectacle of the dress, the world of our imaginations fuses temporarily with the world of the everyday.
There is something fundamentally synchronous between Lauren’s work and the city of Wellington – it is as though she has pierced the skin of the city to reveal its bloody interior, alive and pulsing, as she wanders, an exotic flâneuse, through its heart.
- Review - Val Diggle
Presented at SEAM 2009 Spatial Phrases
