Laura Candet/ Winter Issue

By intensely studying both human nature and the ritualistic nature of the society we live in, Laura Candet contributes to this subject by recontextualizing human consciousness and sacred rituals from Eastern European traditions, reintroducing them into contemporary visual art. Bridging imagination and creation, the artist uses symbols found naturally in human consciousness to expose the strange feeling of belonging within nature, the human spirit, spirituality, and beyond.

By connecting being and creating, the artist reinvents human nature so that the audience observes a strange, raw feeling that exposes man's need to rediscover what we have long lost: the sacred.Using a deer as a symbol of a killed woman in her works, Laura Candet chose an animal killed with a desfigurated reproductive system. The flaming heart, symbol of the suffering of Holly Mary, takes the place of the organs and represents a symbol for the women's suffering in the plans of men. The decaying structure of a church compliment the composition, showing saints and angels praying with their head bent down. The dreaminess of the religious images contrast the strongly detailed deer, creating a dissonance. The lump of meat, abstractly created, symbolises the idea or carnage happening.As we look at the world unfolding in front of us? What remains when you think about those women, those PEOPLE, their families, children, pets, lives, feelings, thoughts, dreams, ideas? And all of this because they sinned by loving the wrong people. As we carry their memories in our hearts, we as a community, along side the authorities, should do a better job protecting, understanding, listening and BELIEVING them.