The artwork "Reloaded / Combinatory Collage (cheese 8 couch)" by Martin Laborde features an eclectic mix of colors and shapes, with a black and white horse image juxtaposed against vibrant cartoon imagery and cheese motifs. The composition is lively and fragmented, showcasing Laborde's technique of cutting, pasting, and layering found images to create a narrative of visual contrasts. Laborde's collage reflects a playful exploration of meaning and association, rooted in the artist's sculptural background and his interest in the dynamic process of addition and subtraction. ...
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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