From flowery headdresses to botanical guises to homes perched on the tippy-top of tree stumps, Julie Liger-Belair’s collages (beforehand) invite us right into a whimsical world. In paper and located objects, she dives into private tales and the emotional connections binding us to nature, place, and a way of belonging.
In her Scrappy Blablah collection, for instance, the artist compiles varied cutouts into playful compositions that present a means of processing exterior data, coming about “when the paper scraps on my table decide to embody my feelings about the world outside my studio,” she says. “But they also provide the antidote.”
Liger-Belair and her household just lately visited Vietnam, spurred by their eldest daughter, who was adopted from the nation and hadn’t been again since. New works impressed by the journey embrace bigger collages with painted parts on wooden panels, along with discovered objects, classic pictures, and snapshots the artist took on the journey.
She continues themes of residence and luxury by means of the motif of the home, which regularly encompasses figures, flowers, patterns, and vines that unfurl past their confines. In different compositions, the home shrinks in dimension, as big mushrooms and blossoms coexist alongside woodland creatures in fanciful landscapes.
Liger-Belair has additionally revisited concepts from earlier assemblage work, making small, three-dimensional items in sardine tins and different discovered bins. “I have always loved collecting things and using them in pieces,” she tells Colossal. “My experiments with resin and ceramics have also made their way into this series (called) tinned stories, and they are more fun, dreamlike pieces.”
Discover rather more on Liger-Belair’s web site, Instagram, and Behance.
