New exhibition: Tearing up Vogue and Mining the Detritus | News and events

Montage is not a single artistic medium like painting or drawing, but rather an intermedium (Higgins, 1965). It often involves cutting up and recomposing photographic images to say something about representation and ways of seeing.

In her research, Torrell has asked the following questions: How can montage enable an artist to deconstruct and challenge fashion media, especially the racialized and gendered bodies in Fashion Magazines? What mounting methods can be used? Does using a fashion magazine as source material run the risk of giving voice to already dominant or normative images of women? Torrell has explored these questions and this exhibition will show her answer.

The artist has selected eight Fashion And Teen fashion magazines produced between 1968-2017 in France, the US and Italy as source material to create one montage of each issue on paper. These “primary montages” will be on display alongside the magazines to show how Torrell mines the waste from the process to find out what impact, if any, she had on the resource.

Opening hours

• Thursday, May 2, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM with opening reception from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• Friday 3 May, 12pm-4pm and 6pm-8pm (as part of Loughborough Lates)
• Saturday May 4, 12:00 – 16:00
• Wednesday, May 8, 12:00-4:00 PM
• Thursday May 9, 12:00 – 16:00
• Friday May 10, 12:00 – 16:00

The artist will be present to discuss the work during opening hours, except on Wednesday, May 8. You do not need to make a reservation and the exhibition is free to view.

About the artist

Ehryn Torrell is a practice-oriented PhD candidate in International Relations, Politics and History at Loughborough University’s School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Her research takes place within the Center for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Feminism, Sexual Politics and Visual Culture. She gratefully acknowledges support, in part, through funding from the CDT and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.

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