ARTIST PROFILE

linda toigo

  • Italy (b. 1979 in Trieste)
  • Currently in London, United Kingdom.
  • I am a book artist, paper engineer and graphic designer. With my alteration I celebrate the physical qualities of books and the symbolic value found within their pages.
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  • 2014
  • Found Objects
  • Cut out fashion magazine

  • A woman’s respiratory system is cut through the pages to create a fragile and intricate superposition of paper organs. Within the pages, the anatomical images dialogue with the existing pictures offering the illusion of heartbeat and deep breaths.

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    Vanity Fear (altered magazines) | 2014

A series of unsettling portraits cut out from glossy fashion magazines. The pages of found magazines have been carved to single out particular elements, that through their accumulation on the cover would create a disturbing new image: smiling lips, bright eyes and translucent legs, extracted from their original context and exposed as a multitude are no longer elements of beauty but become part of disfigured creatures.