Roz Vallejo
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Roz’s images are assembled without any formal overriding structure or reason; instead, the presentation encourages the viewer to formulate connections or relationships based on arbitrary notions of proximity or perceived similarities. Taken from glossy magazines, the images are hand-cut and pasted together in an art of deciphering forms. Meanings are deliberately left ambiguous and open-ended.
The scenes composed are inspired by images from the past, the mis-en-scène paintings by the old masters depicting allegorical imagery, theatre, cinematography, and the ubiquity of modern advertising. Roz uses paper in her work because of its humble and quotidian nature. She uses simple understated 'found' images that are disposable, pre-existing, coloured, varied, static and recognisable, and she transforms them from mundane to monumental.
At final composition, like film stills, Roz Vallejo’s work represents something that is remembered at a point in a story, or that is fleeting and forgotten. The viewer engages with these constructed compositions like an intimate encounter.
