Desire De Lacy
Interdisciplinary Fine Artist
Biography
contemporary interdisciplinary fine artist
Desire De Lacy (b.1994) is a South African multidisciplinary artist. Her work is situated in the nuance in psychoanalysis in art. Her method explores an experimental processed based investigation on the representation and expression of truama as an individual and collective human experience. She received her BAFA (Fine Arts) degree from the University of Pretoria in 2017, specializing in mixed media, sculpture, and installation. Desire exhibited in CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2022 (10) with ITSLIQUID group, M.A.D.S Yellow online exhibition (2022), M.A.D.S Brain Cake international physical exhibition in Barcelona (2022) and Sasol New Signatures in South Africa (2017).
Artist statement
My process explores an experimental investigation into the nuance and similarity between new materialism and psychoanalysis. Whilst new materialism is concerned with the way that objects influence people and people influence objects, psychoanalysis is intrested in the way that people affect one another and how the subconscious mind narrates the experience of an individual or collective community. New materialism is situated in the physical realm and psychoanalysis is situated within the nonphysical subconscious realm, they are both concerned with the human experiences and the interaction between certain things. I am curious about this contradiction and how to represent it. Therefore, I use different materials to explore this contradiction. I use my own experiences as a starting point and see how they reflect as a collective experience within different communities
