20″x16″; collage on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Kim Triedman: When She Was Good
at Concord Art in Concord, Massachusetts, USA
13 January-13 February 2022
Kim Triedman says about this work:
Collage is a kind of visual poetry. I am a published poet and novelist. I began working in collage to further indulge my fascination with story.
From the start, I’ve found it incredible how two distinct images-placed in proximity-can create a totally new and unexpected energy. For me it’s exactly like writing poetry. It’s this energy that I seek to harness in my collages.
Much of my work focuses on issues of gender expectations and historical perceptions of femininity and sexuality. The series that I’ve been working on these past few years is entitled “When She Was Good”–a play off the old nursery rhyme. I’m particularly interested in the notion of nostalgia–how old perceptions collide with current societal realities–and the emotional wounds that women continue to carry as a result.
23″x17″; collage on reclaimed window. Courtesy of the artist.
There is a lot of “fragmenting” in my collages: dissociated arms and legs; eyes peering or assessing or spying , mouth’s stuffed, agape, or blacked out. This is something that has just “happened” in my work: it seems to be where I land. No body is entirely intact. Figures are there and not there at the same time. My imagination tends toward the provocative–the visually arresting pairing or detail. A dapper business executive side-eyes a 16th-century Dutch girl, her left hand nested neatly over her belly. A deconstructed Eve in the garden brandishes a perfect, tiny, silver nipple ring.
(text adapted from the artist’s press materials)
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