“Broken Bodies”
an online exhibition from Kolaj Magazine
Each print issue of Kolaj Magazine presents an Exhibition-in-Print as a means of exploring critical ideas about collage. We examine work related to a curatorial premise, identify themes and ideas. The purpose is to develop and share an understanding of collage as a medium and a genre.
“Broken Bodies” originally appeared in Kolaj #11.
This exhibition-in-print examines collage that uses the body as a terrain for exploring or expressing ideas and in particular bodies that are deconstructed and reconstructed, where body parts are added, removed, or exchanged for other objects. These bodies are broken, cut, torn, reassembled, and fraught with a host of contemporary anxieties about gender, identity, physicality, and how we as a society make sense of it all. The bodies in these works of art are dehumanized; made into machines or animals or piles of parts…broken. But in presenting the body in this manner, the artist is asking us to put the bodies back together, to re-humanize them, and in doing that, reflect upon a broken humanity, a humanity that is sometimes tortured, sometimes comical, and often hovering somewhere in between.
Featuring
Sherry Parker
Michael Waraksa
Paul Loughney
Una Gildea
Hope Kroll
Tres Roemer
Ken Ralidis
Karli Henneman
Richard Russell