“We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right…But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing….”
– Tibor Kalman, influential New York designer/editor and radical activist
well known for his images of figures like the Pope and Queen Elizabeth II with a brown skin.
Comment:
Collage, the juxtaposition of contradictory images – they all disrupt our ease. They make us look a second time at our logic, our comfortable narratives..
I want to create a kind of cubism of ideological fragments — from the left, from the right, from the secular and the religious, from east, from west. Where will that lead? No idea….