Magical Realism
'Magical realism combines realism and the fantastic in such a way that magical elements grow organically out of the reality portrayed’, Wendy B. Faris.
'The secret of magical realism lies in its ability to depict reality objectively but with a magical dimension',
Stephen M. Hart.
'Magical realism is what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe', Matthew C. Strecher.
'Magical realism is … an attitude towards reality … the writer confronts reality and tries to untangle it, to discover what is mysterious in things, in life, in human acts', Luis Leal.
'With the word ‘magic’, as opposed to ‘mystic’, I wish to indicate that the mystery does not descend to the represented world, but rather hides and palpitates behind it', Franz Roh.
Photomontage
A montage is an assembly of images that relate to each other in some way to create a single work or part of a work of art. A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/montage
Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that a final image may appear as a seamless photographic print. A similar method, although one that does not use film, is realized today through image-editing software. This latter technique is referred to by professionals as “compositing” … Wikipedia more
Photomontage is often used as a means of expressing political dissent. It was first used as a technique by the dadaists in 1915 in their protests against the First World War. It was later adopted by the surrealists who exploited the possibilities photomontage offered by using free association to bring together widely disparate images, to reflect the workings of the unconscious mind. In 1923 the Russian constructivist Aleksander Rodchenko began experimenting with photomontage as a way of creating striking socially engaged imagery concerned with the placement and movement of objects in space. Other key exponents of the medium are John Heartfield, the German artist who reconstructed images from the media to protest against Germany’s Fascist regime and Peter Kennard, whose photomontages explored issues such as economic inequality, police brutality and the nuclear arms race between the 1970s and the 1990s. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/montage
Magical realist photomontages
Virtually all the images used in the construction of the photomontages have been extracted from original photographs taken at locations in the UK and throughout the world over the past fifteen years. All the photomontages were produced using Affinity Photo on an iPad Pro.
