inkjet print on cotton paper, mixed-media collage, mounted on boardConditions
Description
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The artwork depicts the word "DOCENT" in bold, capital letters against a plain white background. The composition is minimalist and utilizes a monochromatic color scheme, emphasizing the simplicity and clarity of the design. The typography is clean and modern, with each letter rendered in a crisp, sans-serif font. The piece likely reflects a conceptual approach, where the text itself becomes the central focus, inviting the viewer to contemplate the meaning and significance of the word "DOCENT" within the context of contemporary art. ...
Working 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. ...
