Cut, Paste, Glue: Constructing Identity Through Analog Collage

In this workshop, visual artist SHADE invites participants to explore collage as a tool for self-expression and a way to explore and re/construct identity. By deconstructing existing imagery — vintage prints, personal photos, printed matters and social media visuals — we will learn how memories, perception, and personal stories can be reassembled into new visual narratives to ‘narrate ourselves’.

Through hands-on experimentation with textures, layers, and composition, we’ll play with themes of identity, memory, and transformation, discovering how apparently unrelated fragments can come together to create personal (or collective) portraits.

The workshop lasts two hours: 18:00 – 20:00.

All experience levels—no prior background in collage or art-making required.

Please bring with you a photo (on your phone/email inbox) we can print on the spot to use it in the workshop.

Want to know more about the artist?
SHADE is a Belgium-based visual artist born in Russia. Working across analog collage, photography, and mixed media, his practice investigates the intersections of memory, bodily transformation, loss, and queer identity.  With a background in photography, SHADE merges personal archives with found vintage print media, exploring how human identity and emotions are continuously fragmented, reinterpreted, and reconstructed. As an educator and artist, he approaches collage as an “intuitive laboratory”: a tactile medium for visual storytelling, self-exploration, and personal narrative building. His work has been presented in cultural spaces including Beursschouwburg (Brussels), the Belgian Poster Festival (Antwerp), The Village (Berlin).

@shade.collage