PHOTOCOLLAGE — salazar quas artist portfolio

A geo-specific, photo-collage series with a work produced in a different city every few years. To date the works are placed from Austria to Switzerland to Australia and act as visual motifs for specific City sites. Graz in Austria, Geneva in Switzerland, and Sydney are represented in playful collage works that appropriate marketing material from each city within a specific timeframe. The work defines a particular perspective on high art or high culture from the position of the nomadic voyeur; of dreams conjured and of scenes scavenged from cultural landscapes that prove both accessible and discriminatory. The works are at once documentative and fantastical with equal measure.

Utopian Slippage, 2017 Artist in Residence, Frontyard Projects, Sydney AUS. Paper, card, foam core, glue. 140cm X 90cm.

‘This Is Geneve’, Geneva, CH 2012.
Photo collage, card, foam core, frame.
(dimensions W80cm X H50cm)

Lounge Of Dreams, 2011/12, Vienna, AUT / Geneva CH.
Paper, foam-core, wooden frame. 70cm X 50cm.

This Is Graz, 2010 Schaumbad Atelierhaus, Graz AUT.
Paper, foam-core, wooden gilded frame. 101cm X 81cm.
PDF booklet link.

[archival text-to-work notes]:
A large co-alescence of memories of simultaneous cultural happenings. This melange of graphic reconstructions present, re-present, and celebrate a cultural spectrum of East and West; of roots, patriotism, and the chastity of cultural heritage.. and of institution versus independent establishmentarianistic practices. They propose that the viewer consumes a glimpse of a societal bubble in all it's brewed offerings and envelope one's own participation in the think-space ironically provided by it's adopted minimalism.. floatated societal spheres. All works made from paper/compressed card and wood framing.