Colagens

by Ingrid Wagner

Ingrid Wagner, the author, sought in the transparence of the afternoons the paths for her narratives. The collages gave her the comfort of an artistic work, in a moment when she lived a phase of “transition”, according to her words. After having worked as a moviemaker with her brothers – awarded and applauded in the 70’s and 80’s –, just like them she found herself away from film gauges, screenplays and animations. Each work has any given shape as its starting point, and for some reason it becomes special. “Usually it comes from a shape and it keeps evolving. It is the starting line, the tip of it”, says Ingrid. Piles of magazines, thousands of consulted pages gradually give her what she seeks: an object, a landscape, a scene or a color, simply a color, in the desired shade. The cuts are sometimes, many times, tiny. Extracted from advertisements, for example, they adjust as tiny tiles in the surrealism of the compositions. Imperceptible amendments color the skies and the grounds, the m