COLLAGE BOOKS
Companions brings collectively a collection of collages by Esra Plümer Bardak and 10 poems by Mehmet Ratip, as the results of a collaboration that delves into themes resembling poverty, loss, nature, and id, unveiling the complexity of landscapes, completely different sedimentations, and scales. These small-scale collage compositions, or landscapes, that incite locations, actual, imagined, or forgotten are offered alongside poems that accompany and provides voice to them. The alternate between phrase and picture channeled and challenged proximity to the idea of “right here”, to house, to 1 one other, and oneself. These landscapes and their companion voices are created within the current second, but are transcendental, oscillating between being within the second and touring by means of historical past via inherited narratives and trauma. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full coloration, print journal, exists to point out how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new considering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s considering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.