The artwork "Reloaded / Combinatory Collage (cheese 8 couch)" by Martin Laborde utilizes a muted color palette with sporadic bright accents, juxtaposing a black-and-white horse image with colored fragments, including a cartoon character. The composition is eclectic, merging disparate images into a cohesive whole that challenges visual expectations. Laborde's approach is characterized by his sculptural background, manifesting in layered, tactile visuals that suggest addition and subtraction. This piece reflects Laborde's playful exploration of imagery and metaphor, emblematic of his methodology where selected or found elements create new meanings through collage. ...
Martin Laborde studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and lives and works nowadays in Lisbon, Portugal. Together with his partner, editor Alice Dusapin, they founded in 2017 the cooperative project Ampersand (Lisbon), a cultural space programming exhibitions, editorial presentations, and film screenings.
Trained as a sculptor, Laborde makes a lot of collages with selected or found images, giving free rein to his imagination. According to the artist, making works is always a process of addition and subtraction, in which the copied or pasted images happen to be in an open collaboration. Cutting, editing, deleting, amending, copying, pasting,… all these acts ultimately lead to a given image. Things are never just what they are.
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