Liv Enqvist, born 1980, grew up in Stockholm and works as a creative mind with art, film and text. Liv is educated in Japan, France, Italy and Sweden. Among other things, she studied stage design at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Rome and design at Beckman’s in Stockholm.
In her project “Image Recycled”, she has taken advantage of all sorts of paper that she’s been using in collage and clothing. The clothes can be seen as a commentary on how we consume fashion, that we every season are chasing something new instead of using and re-use. Paper is a fragile and perishable material, but so strong that it has shaped our entire civilization, it has been around for over two thousand years. No other medium has spread knowledge in a similar way; books helped to democratize access to knowledge and have brought enlightenment, art and knowledge to mankind. Today when our world is becoming more and more digital – paper has been given a new role, now free to be used in new ways.
We come across more images in the course of a single day than our forefathers did in a whole lifetime. Like schizophrenical archaeologists, we sieve through mountains of visual rubble, putting aside only a few nuggets of beauty and significance, in the hope of later on managing to piece it all together, recreating vague histories, hierarchies, genealogies and architectures of the few things which still mean something to us, somewhere in the back of our scattered minds.To create something out of paper requires a physical effort, more than just clicking on the computer. It takes time, passion and patience. By working with a kind of analog Photoshop, where she cuts, adding layer upon layer and paint, Liv creates new stories by images seen before somewhere else.
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