Analog photographs, collage, acrylic, and metal
20 x 25 cm
Pamela García Valero
Pamela García Valero treats images like a living archive, something to be sorted, re-ordered, and tested against memory. Working across drawing, photography, collage, and installation, she builds systems from rocks, twigs, screenshots, scientific diagrams, and her own photographs, following the small frictions that arise when they meet. Landscapes keep returning, not as scenery, but as a way of measuring how a body moves through time and place, how attention settles and drifts.
In the Words of the Artist
Analog photographs, collage, acrylic, and metal
20 x 25 cm
I’m a very curious person, often drawn to the intersections between image, text, and material memory. I explore a mix of creative disciplines, from drawing, photography, design, and installation, to build visual narratives that balance intimacy and analysis. My work often unfolds as a process of observing, collecting, and reassembling fragments, searching for meaning in the spaces where emotion and form meet.
Analog photographs, collage, acrylic, and metal
20 x 25 cm
I see it as something similar to building paths, and on a good day, it tends to reach a destination. Sometimes it all makes sense, other times it can lead me somewhere I'd never expect. I love its manual, tactile quality, almost meditative, and it helps me translate thought into form, a tension between control and intuition.
Landscapes always seem to find me; nature and my relationship with my surroundings continually return to my work. There's a quiet dialogue between observation and surrender, a way of letting landscape shape how I see and respond.
Analog photographs, collage, acrylic, and metal
20 x 25 cm
Analog photographs, collage, acrylic, and metal
20 x 25 cm
I tend to lay out imagery I’ve collected and look at it as a kind of diagram, searching for connections that weren’t there initially, and connecting new elements. There’s often a tension between order and accident, archive and intuition, and a fascination with how images can hold emotion.
From natural materials like rocks and twigs to scientific diagrams and papers, as well as my own archive of analog and digital photographs. I keep a folder full of curiosities I come across online, labeled “for later.” Each month, I try to curate and print the images that stay with me, and over time, I begin to form connections and shape new ideas. It’s starting to get out of control.
Analog photographs, collage, acrylic, and metal
20 x 25 cm
Analog photographs, collage, acrylic, and metal
20 x 25 cm
About the Artist
Pamela Garcia Valero is a multidisciplinary artist based in Monterrey, Mexico. Her work explores emerging approaches to nature, landscape, and the self, highlighting gestures that have the potential to create new narratives. She explores ways to approach notions of image, materiality, and memory through a mix of creative fields, from mixed media, drawings, photographs, and installations that perceive space as a reflective medium of time.
For Your Viewing Pleasure
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
ALMA HASER is a German-born, UK-based photographer who treats the portrait as a site of construction. Best known for “Cosmic Surgery,” she prints, folds, and reassembles faces into sculptural forms before re-photographing them, testing how identity is read.
MASAKI NAKAYAMA is a Japanese artist working in collage and assemblage. He recombines found photographs and printed matter through cutting, layering, and erasure to surface new narratives from the everyday image. Recent projects trace memory, urban texture, and the poetics of reuse across prints, installations, and artist books.
CAROLINE MAUXION is a Montréal-based artist whose practice tests the material life of images through printing on paper, glass, and plaster, often staging fractured, intimate anatomies and an “orthopedic” vocabulary that folds photography toward sculpture.
BARBARA GIBSON is a self-taught Polish illustrator specializing in digital collages. She is the co-owner of Gibson Kochanek Studio, which she runs alongside her partner, Marta Kochanek.
LITO KATTOU is a Cypriot artist whose sculptural and pictorial work explores bodies, ecologies, and myth in the Mediterranean and beyond. Working with cut aluminum, heat-treated surfaces, and hybrid silhouettes, she stages posthuman figures that register climate, migration, and techno-nature as intertwined forces.
Out and About
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
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Lutz Bacher and the Power of Omission by Jonathan Odden
Eschewing conventional retrospective models at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, the exhibition raises enduring questions of legacy and loss.
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Is Photography Yorgos Lanthimos’s True Calling? by Zack Hatfield
The director, who recently announced a break from filmmaking, discusses his fledgling career as a maker of dreamy, category-defying photobooks.
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A Little Death by Claire Rousay
This album finds Rousay at her most distilled, weaving dusk-lit field recordings and fragments of conversation into tender, slow-burning compositions. a little death closes her trilogy with confidence, transforming her diaristic collage practice into something closer to chamber music.
