Studio/Research: BVA 316 - 11/10/2019 (Other Approached towards my project - Collage)

After the exhibition at the Raw Gallery on my final year project, "The Cinderella", My approach towards the work is too mainstream, I needed some other stuff to highlight the aspect of diversity in a  more recognizable way. 

Days of frustration looking into papers, Kathryn recommended me the method of collage. I was a little against this idea because its quite new from what I normally do, which is pen drawing (Line and Gradient). But after using some time to think about it, the idea of collaging is actually pretty good. 

Here are some example given by Kathryn, 

Raquel van Haver 
https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/raquel-van-haver#image-39780

Raquel van Haver, A Shrine of a Deity: L’enyin ise aye Lo Ku, 2018. Photo of collage, diasec. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Hans Wilschut.


About migration, colonisation and export and how all these factors have led people all over the world

Themes

Van Haver’s work explores people from all walks of life and all layers of society across the world. She is particularly passionate about showing glimpses of people’s lives who might usually be overlooked in society, or pushed to the side – people who live on the fringes, people who are stigmatised and marginalised. As such, she’s spent time cultivating relationships with young men hanging out on the streets of her neighbourhood in Amsterdam Southeast and in London, with gangs of teenagers in Lagos, Nigeria and with people in the ‘favelas’ of South America. She gets to know people, in a sense starts living with them, and starts taking their photographs. These photographs, she later uses as studies for her paintings, where she weaves together different faces and places to create assemblage-type works of the people she’s met on her travels and in her daily life.

Wangechi Mutu

https://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/wangechi_mutu_prolapsus.htm

Complete Prolapsus of the Uterus, 2004, glitter, ink, 

collage on found medical illustration paper, 46 x 31cm

This work is very interesting too. Looks to me its a mixture of
photography, water colour, and digital texture collage into an artwork. 

Wangechi Mutu trained as both a sculptor and anthropologist. Complete Prolapsus of the Uterus illustrates the marriage of these interests. Through collage, Mutu capitalised on the two-sided nature of her materials, conveying both the content and physicality of their sources. In using old medical diagrams, her collages carry the authenticity of artefact, as well as an appointed cultural value. In Complete Prolapsus of the Uterus Mutu contrives a racial hybrid: a puckered, prudish white face masks an ancient tribal wisdom. Mutu examines how ideology is implicitly tied to corporeal form. She cites a European preference of physique, inflicted on and adapted by Africans, resulting in hierarchical difference and genocide.