Rebeka

Elizegi

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Rebeka Elizegi is an artist, curator, and author whose work and expertise has made her an important figure in the contemporary collage community. Her most recent publication, Collage by Women, is a testament to her dedication to the craft, and serves to showcase the diverse perspectives of women that have shaped the current state of collage. The works featured in today's issue demonstrate her degree of mastery and innovative thinking in the field.

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My work, my hobby and my vocation are all the same: collage is what I do 100 percent of the time right now. It’s part of my lifestyle. Collage is a technique that I have always been passionate about because of its transgressive nature, and its ability to alter reality from fragments of that same reality, especially when I work with photos or everyday objects. Building something new from images that already exist and providing a new meaning and interpretation is a transformative process that I am passionate about. I use a surrealist language that gives the observer total freedom of interpretation, which is always the most interesting thing for me. Depending on who is looking at the piece and how that person looks at it, this interpretation may be very different from that of the artist, which is no more than the starting point for the work. My work also helps me to escape from environments that I often do not understand, and it allows me to build a parallel world; It is my personal space of protest, claim and freedom.

Rebeka Elizegi

Collage is the artistic medium she uses to develop her small, medium and large format pieces, always applying classic manual collage techniques focused on the exploration of diverse materials. The female figure occupies an important place in her work, although she also focuses on topics such as gender diversity and other social issues. Body images are also a constant in her work; understanding the body as a space that is oppressed, marked and stigmatized by color, age or gender, which so often leads to submission, which she is trying to liberate with her compositions. Parallel to the exhibitions, which have a more artistic and personal character, her collages have also illustrated the covers of books and magazines, as well as discs and posters. She has published several illustrated books using the collage technique and is the author of the books Collage Therapy and Collage by Women (Promopress Editions) and Creative Collage (Alma Editorial).

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Rebeka Elizegi was born in 1968 in Donostia, Spain. She is currently based in Madrid, Spain.