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Laura Larson

@laura_larson_studio

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Rust Belt People! Hope to see you at our events this fall. #AlltheWomenIKnow

I first heard “Armagh” by the Au Pairs in the 80s around the time I learned about the pervasiveness of GBV. The song extends our memory of the IRA women prisoners staging a “no work” protest that evolved into a “dirty protest.” Prison guards were squeamish and offended when prisoners told them about their need for period supplies, but okay with violently strip-searching and sexually assaulting them. The visual I have for this song is menstrual blood smeared on the cell walls and poop plugging up peep holes. Armagh, the only women’s prison in Northern Ireland, closed in 1986. See also “Off Duty Trip,” a song mocking the legal system’s inclination to protect violent men and preserve male power. by @laura_larson_studio

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Spirit and Dust opens tomorrow at @urbanartsspace. This group exhibition features 17 artists who explore the themes of death, dying, and grief. Two of my recent photographs are included in the show featuring the always luminous @danirestack. Thanks to @quotidianwriter and @michelle.burdine. by @laura_larson_studio

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We're pleased to announce that Photography + Integrated Media area within Ohio University's School of Art + Design will be joining us as a vendor and sponsor at Momentum!

You can visit their table during the Exhibits Fair on Friday and Saturday to find out more about the program.

Also, be sure to check out their sponsored session "Portals: The Potential of Refusal & Collaborative Photographic Space" on Saturday afternoon. by @laura_larson_studio

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Interlacing portraiture, collective biography, and cultural criticism, All the Women I Know (np:/Counterpath) a collaborative text-image book maps our epidemic of gendered violence and its erosion of women’s bodily autonomy. Hume and Larson’s approach exploits collisions and misalignments between text and image to address how power and pain move through the body and the body politic. As the project takes account of our connections and differences across intersectional divides, “she” becomes a fugal subject that immerses the reader in a temporal loop haunted by the suppression of women’s stories. By recovering strangeness, lived affect, and queered angles, All the Women I Know celebrates the emancipatory potential of refusal.

Eternal gratitude to @christinehume210 for her love, fierceness, brilliance and courage.

Link in bio.

#wearejanedoe by @laura_larson_studio

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from the Notes:
The text beginning “No woman I know got ready with her sisters” is a response to the first eleven testimonies in the 2021 lawsuit against Eastern Michigan University over its handling of sexual assault cases.

All the Women I Know acknowledges that gender-based violence is a global epidemic infecting systems and states, as well as intimate spaces. Everyone bears some of the pain related to sexual violence because everyone, whether they know it or not, cares about someone who has been the victim of it. Anyone can be a survivor, but the problem continues to be overwhelmingly one of men’s violence against women and girls. The dangers are even more elevated for trans women and other gender minorities as well as for women subject to racism. Our gratitude goes out to survivor advocates and activists who work to amplify the problem, make it visible, and help us imagine a world without it.
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All the Women I Know is driven by a raging heartbeat that clears a feminist path through the social harms and betrayals we survive every day as women. The book’s creativity with language and imagery affirms, with boundless trust, our individual and collective abilities to change this treacherous world.
—Carol Jacobsen, artist & hero, Founding Director, Michigan Women’s Justice & Clemency Project by @laura_larson_studio

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After a long and brutal week, these beauties have arrived.

Link in bio. Shipping at the end of October.

#allthewomeniknow by @laura_larson_studio

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#wearejanedoe by @laura_larson_studio

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Join us for a hybrid in-person/online book launch event for the second edition of shelf documents: art library as practice (published by @track_report / @research_royalacademyantwerp , Antwerp and @b_books_verlag, Berlin), during Wiels Art Book Fair 2026, at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre @wiels_brussels, Brussels, on Saturday 3rd October, 2026, at 1-2pm CEST.

To celebrate the new edition, with an additional foreword and a cover sleeve by Sara de Bondt after an Ersi Varveri drawing, the editors Heide Hinrichs, Elizabeth Haines, Jo-ey Tang @thenotarypublic will highlight the intellectual and ethical work of librarianship. Joined by Eirini Fountedaki @irenefoud (Tavros, Athens @tavros.space), Sam Kim @o.sam.kim (Common Imprint, Berlin @commonimprint) and Yue Yuan @_yue.yuan_ (B09K, Changsha, China @b09k.book), three international projects with shared ethos that engage with art books and art libraries in their respective ecology.

The first edition of shelf documents are in over 80 institutional library collections around the world in museums, art centres, universities and art schools, from Sistema de Bibliotecas, Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Rio Piedras to the University of Canterbury Library, New Zealand, and finds its way onto teaching course lists. For this event, we’ve asked librarians to share photos of the book on their shelves.

shelf documents: art library as practice is edited by Heide Hinrichs, Jo-ey Tang and Elizabeth Haines, and designed by Sara De Bondt. Contributions by Sara De Bondt, Rachel Dedman @racheldedman, Elizabeth Haines, Heide Hinrichs, Laura Larson @laura_larson_studio, Samia Malik, Melanie Noel, Marisa C. Sánchez, David Senior @davidseniorjr, Jo-ey Tang, Ersi Varveri @ersi_varveri and Susanne Weiß @sw.susanne_white. Support from Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp @royalacademyantwerp; KIOSK, Ghent @kioskgent; and WIELS, Brussels.

Order the book on the websites of @b_books_verlag and @tique.space. Distribution by @ideabooksnl

To join us online, registration will be posted shortly on Wiels website (or Link in Bio): https://wiels.org/en/events/wiels-art-book-fair-2026 by @laura_larson_studio

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Here comes our new book! Preorder at Asterism! October 2026 release. Huge love to my stellar collaborator and dear comrade, @laura_larson_studio. We hope this book offers you ways of being in and being with a precarious world. Thank you to our generous blurbers, to our adventurous publisher @counterpathspace & @np.press.np.press and to Crisis Studio for the jaw-dropping design. 💜💙💚 by @laura_larson_studio

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“All the Women I Know” COMING IN OCTOBER!

A collaborative image/text book with @christinehume210 from @counterpathspace by @laura_larson_studio

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Reluctantly leaving the summer fort by @laura_larson_studio

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2 months ago

Hello from my favorite season! It’s been a while so I thought I’d say 👋

Big changes and big things coming soon.

💕💕💕 by @laura_larson_studio

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