Unexpected encounters: Collages by Claudia Peppel
Unespected Encounters
Collages by Claudia Peppel
@ Kunstwild Berlin
Eschenstraße 4
16121 Berlin
https://kunstwild.de/contact/
https://claudiapeppel.de
Working on collages involves unexpected encounters. Different materials such as newspaper cut-outs, paper fragments, photographs and colour accents are spontaneously and intuitively combined with one another. Claudia Peppel removes found objects from their original context and inserts them into new, unusual constellations. Embracing absurdity, collage produces illogical combinations and scenes of fantasy, relational settings that emerge or dissolve. The pieces seem to enact something — familiar, uncanny, or both — when placed together in a kind of imaginary space or wordless vacuum.
Claudia Peppel has been making paper collages since the early 2010s. Her work has appeared in publications such as Contemporary Collage Magazine, in the form of book covers for Franco Cesati Editore and ICI Berlin Press, and in print media for Studio Bens. Born in Berlin, she moved to Rome to study literature before receiving her master’s degree from Freie Universität Berlin and her PhD from TU Darmstadt. Claudia Peppel has long been devoted to avant-garde movements of the 20th century, especially Dadaism and Surrealism, as well as themes such as waiting, failure, lists and the uncanny. Although she has also explored other artistic forms such as sculpture and photography, collage has remained her greatest passion. For more information please see: https://claudiapeppel.de
