paper collage. Courtesy of the artist and The Weird Show.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Phantom Tigers and Parallel Papers
Online at The Weird Show Gallery
10 November 2025-16 February 2026
“Phantom Tigers and Parallel Papers” takes paper back from that history. It reclaims it as a generative material—fragile but ungovernable, resistant to classification. Here, paper is not background but protagonist; not support, but substance. The artists gathered in this show—Susana Blasco, Andrea Burgay, Jack Felice, Alma Haser, Paul Henderson, Miko Hornborg, and Mark Wagner—approach collage not as a format but as a political and poetic gesture. Their practices unfold across media, geographies, and sensibilities, yet they share a refusal of passivity. Paper is torn, layered, burned, folded, cut, and reassembled—not to conceal violence, but to make it visible. Each cut becomes a question: What histories are we made of? What fragments do we choose to keep? What happens when we rearrange them? In their hands, collage becomes liberation—a way to reprogram matter, image, and memory. Susana Blasco geometrizes nostalgia, using paper like thread on a loom. Andrea Burgay performs alchemy with discarded ephemera, turning loss into fertile terrain. Jack Felice silences source images beneath monochrome strata, exposing the tension between presence and erasure. Alma Haser uses paper as an element that creates shadows and echoes on her own skin and body, playing with equivocation and trompe l’oeil. Paul Henderson composes surreal geographies where presences are defined by their absence. Miko Hornborg reconfigures the language of collage within digital culture, layering abstract physical cuts to expose the fragile boundary between originality and replication. Mark Wagner, slicing the icon of currency, dissects capitalism itself, reimagining value as a creative act.
paper collage. Courtesy of the artist and The Weird Show.
The title of the exhibition, “Phantom Tigers and Parallel Papers”, is deliberately open, deliberately playful. It’s a provocation, a spark for conversation. The question it poses is genuine: What is this? And that question is the beginning of the dialogue The Weird Show hopes to spark between the work, the artists, and you.
The exhibition was curated by Sònia Lopez.
(text adapted from material provided by the organizers)