Edgard Barbosa is a Brazilian contemporary artist based in New York City, focusing on collage and design. He is interested in how commercial images and messages affect our personal and collective memories and identities.
His collages explore deconstruction as a means to understand and reflect the fragmentation of memories. Furthermore, how commercial images intertwine with personal and cultural moments to shape our sense of self, and our view of the world.
Edgard also investigates the modernist interplay of universal and regional vocabularies within the contemporary context of commercial graphic design: how the market absorbed modernist values and aesthetics to propagate its narratives.
Edgard uses a technique he calls ‘korigami,’ which involves folding rather than cutting collages to create abstract forms.
He is technically influenced by the digitization of analog media in the 2000s and inspired by the aesthetics of his upbringing in the Brazilian modernist language of artists like Oscar Niemeyer and Athos Bulcão.
