_ABOUT
Contemporary, self-taught collagist Maureen Cox carefully creates and manipulates abstract and surrealist pieces in the language of analog collage. Through her optics, she gives life to visual narratives with paper as her tool, manifesting new perspectives about the world, which become complete in the interpretive space of the beholder.
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Magazines and newspapers, both new and old, combined with a wide array of sources, including photographs, image banks and AI generated prints, fabrics, papers, inks, and acrylics merge during creation into a one-of-a-kind work of art. These collages are finely and meticulously handcut or torn, assembled, and pasted onto a paper based support.
_STATEMENT
My work explores identity as an unstable visual construction. I am interested in the tension between the image that appears unified and the subject’s inner experience, which is formed through fragments, displacements, and layers.
Collage becomes a natural language for this inquiry: by cutting, shifting, and recomposing photographic fragments, the image reveals that any sense of unity is ultimately constructed. Beneath this surface persist absence and desire, forces that sustain a continuous search for meaning and wholeness.
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The works remain deliberately open. Subtle fractures or displacements interrupt the image and arrest the gaze, inviting the viewer to inhabit that space of tension and to complete, through their own perception, what the image leaves unresolved.
My collages function as broken archives, traces that rebuild themselves in each image. I am not looking for a single or definitive image; I seek a space where what escapes from order, linearity, and explanation can continue insisting.
_WORKS
Through her optics, she gives life to visual narratives with paper as her tool, manifesting new perspectives about the human world. These handmade collages are finely and meticulously cut or torn, assembled, and pasted onto a paper based support.
_BIO
My interest in photography, contemporary dance, theater, drawing, sculpting and art history, intertwines with a devotion for film and psychoanalysis. Having received an undergraduate degree in Audiovisual Communication, I worked in art direction, in film post-production, and as a photography assistant. Subsequently I continued my studies and earned a degree in Psychology, a master’s in Clinical Psychology and a certificate in Art Therapy.
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At present, I am devoted to my self-taught brand of analog collage, which I have enriched with a Contemporary Collage course at Central Saint Martins University of Arts, London. I recently obtained first place at the Campeonato Mundial de Collage y Coloquio Visual del Fin del Mundo (World Collage Championship and Visual Colloquium at the End of the World), organized by Finis Terrae University, in Chile.
During November 2025, a selection of my work, under the name “El Silencio No Obedece”, was exhibited at the Centro Cultural Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
_PRINTS
Prints are available in Fine Art Hahnemühle German Etching. 310gsm. 100% a-cellulose. White. Matt premium acid and lignin free. Museum quality. Original artwork is also available for purchase.
For inquiries, collaborations, exhibitions and information about sizes, shipping and prices, feel free to contact me.
gangster. self-portrait. 2022