Untitled 1976

This untitled collage was made by Linder, who was born in 1954, with cut and pasted paper. I’m really getting into this! The clash of images and ideas. The teapot with the woman's body makes me think about domesticity and sexuality all rolled into one. It’s very surreal, like a dream but slightly unsettling. The more I look, the more I think about other artists like Hannah Hoch and Martha Rosler, who were also doing collage in really interesting ways, using montage as a means to explore the culture of everyday life. I love how collage can be so direct and immediate, but also allow for so much ambiguity and interpretation. There is something punk about it, too! The punk movement was really interesting because it encouraged a DIY approach to art making, and, for me, collage is very much in that spirit: a real ‘cut and paste’ aesthetic. This work really does open up a whole world of questions about identity and representation, doesn’t it?