Artist Paola Bazz

looking up - 50 x 50 x 6 cm - 2014 concertinas collage created for metamatic:taf’s gallery in Athens where, together with other images coming from other artists, constituted an image of an entire image/sky

I am an Italian-born (padua) and UK-based (Manchester) artist. I create 2d and 3d collages using paper that has been previously employed elsewhere like magazines, leaflets, advertising materials etc. I use different techniques, from traditional analog collage to original and innovative ones, like my ‘strips collage’ or ‘concertinas collage’. My work explores the constant change of our identity.

fading away again - limited edition of 20 - 80 x 160 cm - 2019 This collage is inspired by how our memories, like old photographs, fade in quality and vibrancy over time. It is the portrait of Marcello Mastroianni in the famous Federico Fellini film ‘8 e mezzo’. An old beautiful and famous italian film that most of us don’t even remember.

I use printed-paper because it is one of the mediums through which advertising and consumption messages are spread. consumerism is degrading the stability of ecosystems, so the use of printed-paper is a way to emphasise the role that consumption has in the construction of our identity. we are what we buy and consumption functions as a way to create a sense of self. as fashion, our identities became disposable and like any product, it grows obsolete very quickly, in a

state of continuous flux.

the great escape - 80 x 80 x 8 cm - 2017 strips collage where a portrait of the same person depicted in 2 different poses changes when the observer moves from left to right and viceversa.

More info:

Website: https://www.paolabazz.com

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