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Elizegi Rebeka
“Zokousai” is a word in Basque (a minority language of the Basque Country-Spain, the author’s language), which refers to something that smells bad, to a poorly ventilated corner.
“Zokousai” series consists of 47 manual collages that the artist has photographed placing them in different places of nature, specifically in different locations on Formentera Island (Spain). And is this environment that adds symbology and finishes the work, creating a visual set where collage and landscape merge into a single piece.
The series invites us to reflect on the differences that we generate as an increasingly polarized society that leaves the most sensitive social sectors such as the elderly, children or women on the margins, generating migrations, wars, slavery, poverty or loneliness, among other disasters.
“Collage is the artistic medium I use to develop my small, medium and large format pieces, always applying classic manual collage techniques focused on the exploration of diverse materials. The female figure, gender diversity and other social issues occupy an important place in my work. Understanding the body as a space that is oppressed, marked and stigmatized by color, age or gender, which so often leads to submission, which I am trying to liberate with my compositions.” – Rebeka Elizegi
Rebeka Elizegi is a visual artist and graphic designer, a graduate from the Massana School of Art and Design in Barcelona.
Collage is the artistic medium she uses to develop her small, medium and large format pieces, always applying classic manual collage techniques focused on the exploration of diverse materials.
The female figure occupies an important place in her work, although she also focuses on topics such as gender diversity and other social issues. Body images are also a constant in her work; understanding the body as a space that is oppressed, marked and stigmatized by color, age or gender, which so often leads to submission, which she is trying to liberate with her compositions.
Parallel to the exhibitions, which have a more artistic and personal character, her collages have also illustrated the covers of books and magazines, as well as discs and posters, and have been part of decoration projects. She has published several illustrated books using the collage technique and is the author of the books Collage Therapy and Collage by Women (Promopress Editions) and Collage Creativo (Alma Editorial).
She has worked for clients such as Alma – Social Work of La Caixa, San Telmo Museum, Gran Meliá Hotels, Projecte Mut, Thyssen-Bornemisza National Musuem, km kulturunea Museum, Joven Dolores or Jah Chango and has also collaborated with the newspapers La Vanguardia, Der Spiegel and Le Monde Diplomatique.
Her work has been exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Donostia, Los Angeles, Warsaw and Berlin, and her work has been shown in numerous publications specializing in art and collage.