Sandra Gea
Embodied Collage Practices
My art practice is an act of self-empowerment.
My analogue collages celebrate the feminine body in her remembrance of innocence, wilderness and sensuality as natural states of being.
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​Through the deconstruction of pictures from fashion magazines, symbols of cultural objectification of women's bodies, I rewrite personal stories of societal conditioning and experiences of misogyny with radical earth-body wisdom.​
The impulse to create from the rawest form of energy is central to my artistic inquiry. ​With the body as crucible, the emotional and sensory substance of memory is extracted and alchemised into meticulously hand-cut collages.
In ritualising the creative process into an inner shamanic journey, I restore agency over my body and identity.
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My multilingual brain plays a key role when processing materials: meaning, symbol, metaphor and colloquial expressions are deconstructed and rearranged into new codes of interpretation - an unexpected and sometimes provoking combination of signs and images in the spirit of Dada.
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​Walking the land​, bonding with its ancestral wisdom, mythology and archaeology fuel my inspiration. In dialogue with the archetype of the medial woman, she who bridges worlds - alchemist, mystic and medicine woman, I nurture my visceral need to feel into the primordial essence of creation.