Alongside to ‘Niolam Ja Se Kochaneczke’ (2016) video – that I wrote about in the previous blog post – I also have been developing series of collages deconstructing and re-defying how women and love have been represented in Eastern European folk traditions.
Collage is a medium that allows us to visually re-think the flood of images out of which the past, the present and the future are constructed. A tool for dismantling, undoing and pulling things apart. A tool for combining the preexisting into something that could not be seen before. A tool for creating new perspectives, hidden representations and unheard narratives.
Let it be trough scissors and glue or cut, copy and paste.
In my work I have combined both analogue and digital. I used images found on the web, which I printed, cut apart and then constructed new images through photocopier and risograph. I also used books on folk and archived folk songs texts.
