Paola

Dcroz

Paola Dcroz engages collage to achieve a state of tranquility and serenity. By reassembling deconstructed fashion photographs, she produces emotional portraits that reveal the intricate psychological dimensions of human existence. Fields of color are overlaid without restraint upon the forms of bodies and visages, evincing an ephemeral quality characteristic of the present moment.

When I sit down and display all the material in front of me I go through a rush of expectation thinking of all the endless possibilities that hide. Through the process I go through the awareness of my yearning for care, I materialize every feeling that comes from the act of being, surviving some painful moments, the fact of living far away from my family; it’s a way of healing wounds. I liberate my mind. I am a loner and it’s tricky sometimes to interact with others. I experience freedom! It’s the best way to spend time alone. Collage has shown me who I am, it has been the only path to decipher my mind in the most fascinating way. It has also taught me to love myself in every aspect; in the successes, the errors, the ugly, etc-

Paola Dcroz

My work is about going through emotions, especially solitude, loneliness, uprooting and personal relationships, and creating pieces that hint in a subtle way at human uncertainty and voids I find cutting and pasting the best way to materialize the random and the intangible. The moment an image appears and from there, between chance and conscious search, a story is told. My inspiration comes from observing people, their gestures as an expression of vulnerability and the human body as the main context where this happens. The touch, or absence of it, the need we have to feel the others close. I also look at nature and its power over us. The synergy that shows us how fragile and strong we can be.

Through my work I depict emotions, how I feel about reality, so that´s what I´m interested in sharing with the spectator, how they relate to daily life and which emotional landscapes they create. I work with magazines deconstructing images to remove them from their context, I choose all the remaining cutouts to create a background of altered, haphazard reality in order to reveal their power of transmitting emotions. The act of cutting is healing, brings calm and peace; answers so many questions. Looking at the final image gives relief and untangles the feelings that accompany the creative process. “Collage is my passion, I express through it in the most perfect way, it celebrates the randomness in me.”

Paola Dcroz

Paola Dcroz was born in 1975 in Colombia. She is currently based in Madrid, Spain.