In much the same way as fashion can be read a collage of references to moments past and present, local artist Caro Toledo enjoys playfully combining disparate elements to create new narratives. Toledo’s works are both personal and universal in nature and you may be able to find yourself somewhere in the middle of any one of them. Join us for an intimate opening event on Friday December 1 from 5-7pm or pop in during the week to browse this latest body of work.

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Art making comes to me in waves, the tides of which are unpredictable, Life and all that. 

Whilst making the works for Soul Elevator, feelings of  curiosity and happiness 

prevailed. I was imagining thoughts and what their physicality might be, they could be a little like these works: loose and seemingly still taking shape, buoyed by the tunes facilitating my mind’s meanderings. Like thoughts, the works are layered, one thing triggering another, another playing off something else. Nothing was ruled out, and that creative freedom was incredibly gratifying, and… elevating.

Collage allows me to transform words and visuals, to extract a new meaning of my doing. I enjoy displacing things, turning them about, cutting up the words of others and tell my own stories. Mind you, I don’t spell things out, no. There’s space for a little mystery, a game of sort. In a way, it’s a collaboration: I do some of the work, you’ll do the rest. And that’s a little magic, don’t you think?