Collage

A technique of accumulation often seen across SMW’s practice. Through an assemblage of different forms, SMW creates new form and new meaning.


Listings connecting to the typology “Collage” (87)



Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00058-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-037
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 16.5 x 11.5
  • Materials
  • Color print and oil crayon
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Self-printed.


  • Reflection Notes

“Self-portrait reading a porno magazine; taken with a timer in studio at Pratt (NY). When I met Carolee she asked was was my obssession. I said ‘sex and shit’. She told me to make 20 drawings in a week. They are all in Kansas. The materials are in the background. Porno on the floor.” – SMW.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00090-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-069
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 21 x 29.5
  • Materials
  • Photocopy
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

“Wilke SOS series. I tried to emulate this with ‘Before Robin, After Hannah Wilke’. Robotic presence in this system (of archiving).” – SMW.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00069-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-048
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 21 x 29.5
  • Materials
  • Photocopy and oil crayon
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

“Carl Andre shows up more than I’m comfortable with… I guess it’s something about the persistence of patriarchy and the need to keep marking over it…” – SMW as paraphrased by MH.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00101-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-080
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 88.5 x 84
  • Materials
  • Photocopy
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Parts: A, B, C, D, E, F, G.


  • Reflection Notes

“Some meanings shouldn’t be translatable. Culturally hetero, mystified.” – SMW with AC.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00048-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-027
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 11 x 16.5
  • Materials
  • Photo print and oil crayon
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Self-printed.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00080-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-059
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 21 x 15.5
  • Materials
  • Color print
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Invitation card for an exhibition at Ondrust Gallery (Amsterdam) with handwritten note from De Ateliers director of the time.


  • Reflection Notes

Inventorying session – 27.08.20. “I know it's not Lorca, but for me he is. I was distracted. I am not much into philosophers. Yeah, Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin. Everybody idolised them, so I stayed away from them.” – SMW.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00059-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-038
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 9 x 12.5
  • Materials
  • Color print and oil crayon
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

“Backyard in Kansas, sister (Laura) and dog (Zoe).” – SMW.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00091-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-070
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 21
  • Materials
  • Photocopy and oil crayon
  • Object Location
  • Physical

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00070-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-049
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 27 x 14
  • Materials
  • Shopping bag
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Delft blue.


  • Reflection Notes

“Significance of where am I?” – SMW.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00192-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-081
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 21
  • Materials
  • Photocopy, tape and oil crayon
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Shown on left: “Marxism and Art Beware of Fascist Feminist”. Shown on right: “Having a Talent is Worth Much Unless You Know What To Do With It” (a proposal for a SVA recruitment poster that was not accepted).

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00049-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-028
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 24 x 18
  • Materials
  • Black and white photo print and oil crayon
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Self-printed. Zaal De Unie, Rotterdam.


  • Reflection Notes

“That was my first exhibition – my bedroom. Ended up performing there with Carolee 16 years later. At that time I had no idea I would be working with her in that way. Spatial memory. Always trying to teach my friend something.” – SMW and AC.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00081-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-060
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 21 x 12.5
  • Materials
  • Black and white photo print
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Self-printed.


  • Reflection Notes

“I never thought I would have any help with anything.” – SMW.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00060-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-039
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 29 x 21
  • Materials
  • Photocopy and oil crayon
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

“Hannah Wilke and Selma Butter. To relate her body to her mother’s body. Intergenerational flux of art and bodies. We are all in our own timelines, and we overlap or parallel with each other. Me is just lonely.” – AC and SMW.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00071-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-050
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 29.5 x 14
  • Materials
  • Photocopy and oil crayon
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Hannah Wilke and her mother, Selma Butter.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 00092-1993/1995-C-SignatureCollage-071
  • Title
  • Signature Collage
  • Dimensions
  • 12.5 x 20
  • Materials
  • Black and white photo print
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Taken in Brooklyn.


  • Reflection Notes

“You can’t escape white culture, but it’s worth pursuing the idea as a method, specially for white people. I’m privileged and white, but that is not the end of the conversation. What comes after is much harder. I am not above privilege but I need to speak of it. Crushed under the wave of history, and old people. The expectation to live up to the work that has been done, without causing damage. Is that even possible? Positionality of the artist in history.” – SMW with AC.

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