ARTIST AND STORYTELLER

Marcos Guinoza lives and works in the city of Santos, Brazil. and has a degree in journalism. What started as a hobby, creating digital collages and posting them on instagram, eventually turned into something much greater. “I never dreamed of being an artist, but now I am called an artist.”

Your greatest inspirations or influences?

My collages are inspired by human feelings and experiences: loneliness, melancholy, emotional disturbances, disorientation and confusion in the face of a seemingly meaningless and increasingly absurd world.

I have an influence on minimalism, Russian suprematism, surrealism and artists like Magritte, Edward Hopper, and David Wojnarowicz among others.

Tell us a bit about your creative process? Work you are most proud of, things you are looking forward to this year?

My creative process is very simple.

I always start with an element: a human figure, a leaf, a cloud, a tree, any object. I carefully curate the images I want to work with. This curation is important for the final result of the collage. I own images that I find on the internet, in magazines, books, etc. And I never know where I'm going when I start creating a collage. I build the collage, cutting and pasting, until the image appears as if by magic.

How has this year changed your creativity or how do you see the world changing moving forward?

The pandemic ended up reinforcing my feelings of isolation. I even made a series of collages called "Isolation" last year. I am a reserved person, I usually isolate myself at home, with my collages, my books, my music, my plants and my dog. I don't believe in change. The human being is a stubborn being, he will return to what he was when the pandemic ended. Unfortunately we will miss the opportunity to be better.