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Blinded Collage

Axelle Kieffer

United States

Collage, Paper on Paper

Size: 12 W x 16 H x 1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

hand-cut collage (9 x 6.9 inches) soft off-white matting, black metal frame 16 x 12 inches framed, hanging hardware included My collages depend a lot of the books I find here and there. Out of a book found few weeks ago, I did this one. I built up the forest, the branches, even the two characters from scratch out of several images to make one single seamless piece.

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Collage:

Paper on Paper

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

12 W x 16 H x 1 D in

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I grew up and spent most of my life in France. Since moving to the U.S, I found myself loving to wander around flea markets. In fact, this is how I began to buy vintage cabinet photos and old illustration books. I’m very sensitive to the expression, the shape of the face, the body position and if the photo is damaged by time. If the photo establishes a connection with me, I take it. Often, my collages are the vehicle of eye experiments in body modification. Making traditional handmade collages is weirdly to me closed to our modern science, closed a laboratory genetic manipulation. I scalp and paste together anatomic pieces to create exquisite corpses. The scalpel cut pieces cover the image and thus reveal a new meaning at the manner of a palimpsest. Covering, hiding, assembling the pieces create new combinations. The collage breaks our vision of a known body. The making of these grotesque hybrids open new possibilities. When collage usually reduces the image to a layered pasted image, here the collage seems to aim to create a new world concealing art, anatomy and poetry.

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