The artwork "Reloaded / Combinatory Collage (cheese 8 couch)" by Martin Laborde presents an eclectic mix of cut-out images on a white backdrop, featuring a grayscale horse, cartoon character, and various cheese images. The composition relies on a juxtaposition of disparate elements, utilizing contrast and whimsy. The collage technique reflects a playful, Dada-inspired style, inviting viewers to reinterpret mundane visuals. Laborde's work embodies his sculptural training, emphasizing the fluidity and open-ended nature of artistic creation, challenging the permanence of images through dynamic assembly. ...
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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