Laura González is an artist, writer, yoga teacher and an Athenaeum Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her work, rooted in performance and visual art, is situated between the medical humanities, psychoanalysis and Eastern thought. She has written chapters on the seductive qualities of a lemon squeezer, inter-semiotic translation, her maternal line and madness. She is the author of Make Me Yours: How Art Seduces (Cambridge Scholars, 2016) and The Hysteric (with Eleanor Bowen, Routledge, 2023). She is currently translating Freud’s case histories into performance, exploring the dramaturgical potential of breath.

Image provided by the artist, photography by Alan Dimmick.