O-1 Visas
What would the historical avantgarde have done in the era of digital collage-making? I’m thinking of the Dadaists and the Constructivists, one bent on deconstructing a system they perceived as broken, the other on building up a new and better system for all—both movements made heavy use of collage. Natalia Titova, an artist born in Siberia and living in Serbia, continues this tradition by generating dozens upon dozens of digital collages, each on a colored ground with a cluster of found images at the center, their interconnections drawn with curving lines, their sensitivity to human complexity palpable. The stylistic effect is of elegant and learned illustration, the thematic touchstone literature. Favorite women writers, censorship, libraries, and the facial hair of famous men of letters each get multiple goes, with Virginia Woolf a repeat contender. Giant sewing needles appear on occasion, making thread out of those connective lines, as if we were all stitched together by some great cosmic seamstress.
—Lori Waxman 4/24/26 4:55 PM