Victoria Colmegna
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This whimsical knitted sweater features a visually striking design with bold colors and playful characters. The grey background provides a canvas for the vibrant, abstract illustrations that depict stylized figures with prominent features and expressive faces. The overall composition is dynamic and visually engaging, reflecting a contemporary and avant-garde artistic style. The distinctive knitting techniques employed, such as the intricate patterns and textured stitches, add depth and dimension to the garment. This unique piece seems to convey a sense of playfulness and imagination, possibly as a commentary on the human experience or societal themes. ...
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Victoria Colmegna
ArgentinianWorking with collage, drawing, installation and video, Victoria Colmegna explores the fluid dynamics between psychology, medicine, art and fashion. Mobilising kitsch, glossy aesthetics, Colmegna frequently layers pop cultural objects together with archival fragments or art historical images, weaving together bizarre cultural tableaux. In her collage series The Cure (2023), Colmegna gathers various books such as Freudian texts, A Tibetan Book of Healing, a cosmological study and information booklets around Bipolar, photographing these texts in gaudy, camp contexts. Lingerie, care bears, studded leather belts and tiaras enshroud these books. Each print acts as a hallucinatory self-portrait, referencing Colmegna’s coming of age, or perhaps rendering wider culture’s conflicting social messages. Other bodies of work have seen Colmegna delve deeper into this exploration of self, drawing her own self-portraits alongside found yearbook images, or fictionalising moments from history such as the Manson murders. This fleeting, kaleidoscopic investigation of popular culture characterises Colmegna’s practice as she continues to untangle the ever-changing contours of culture and its relationship to selfhood. ...