Lost and Found by Laura Quevedo
The "Lost and found" collage series talks about life and the continuous cycle of evasions and encounters. It is an emotional adventure, the connection between others and between ourselves, looking for a comforting way to escape. I represents a small window into the paper universe, and a desire to find a different perception.
Overcoming and learning when faced with difficult situations, is a main driver of discourse. I cut and paste fragments of images and colours by mixing and superimposing them, trying to create a narrative situation, telling a story.
Laura Quevedo is a collage artist, graphic designer, and illustrator from Cantabria, Spain. She understands collage as a need to tell stories.
Quevedo works with analog collage. She has a special interest in social issues, intimate stories in which children and women are the protagonists, although she also focuses on nature and diversity.
In her works, she rescues old photographs and magazines, which, in some occasions, she mixes with pigments. Fragments of colours, shapes and images are mixed and interconnected to construct visual stories that alter their meaning. A recurring aspect in her collages is the continuity of lines and colours of different elements as a point of union. Quevedo uses chance as an ally to endow the composition with the necessary balance and harmony.
Quevedo´s work has been published in Edinburgh Collage Collective’s "Strike A Light" publication. She recently exhibited in the collective collage exhibitions in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, as well at the Kaos Festival which was held this year in Kranj, Slovenia.
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