ASTRID FUCHSLOCHER H.

ANALOG COLLAGE

Works that operate at the intersection of visual storytelling and the archaeology of images, through the exploration of archives, books, magazines, and printed materials from the past. Through analog collage, visual fragments are reactivated, displaced from their original context, and transformed into new narratives connected to ideas, questions, and reflections.
Works grounded in a manual and artisanal process of research, selection, and curation of images drawn from archives and publications, primarily from the twentieth century. The material consists of documentary fragments and visual remnants belonging to historical and cultural contexts of the past, often no longer in circulation. Each work emerges from this exploration and reconfiguration of materials, in a process that reorders temporalities and shifts the archive toward new logics of reading.
Through fragmentation and recomposition of existing materials, dense visual fields are constructed in which images, signs, and words interact. These compositions engage with memory, the past, history, the human condition, diverse realities, social change, and the passage of time. They are shaped by a sense of nostalgia for a past that no longer exists, as well as by the disappearance of certain forms of lived experience belonging to other times.
Through these processes, each element is integrated into cohesive yet open structures. The resulting collages function as symbolic and metaphorical constructions that resist fixed interpretations, instead inviting multiple readings, dialogue, and reinterpretation. The works become relational spaces where different temporalities coexist and are held in tension, generating new constellations of meaning.
Works that propose new aesthetic, historical, and ideological contexts through which to reflect on contemporary reality, fostering critical dialogue around its complexities, tensions, and transformations.