Description
India Evans’s collages are complex places, landscapes that generate both anxiety and desire, composed of bodies, fragments of images, architecture, and materials arranged like traces of a layered memory.
The female bodies that populate India Evans’s works come from clippings of old photographs and art books. The artist explains that it all began in Rome, at the Porta Portese market, with the discovery of a shoebox filled with black-and-white photographs of 19th-Century nudes—images that, in her words, “seemed to beg to be brought back into visibility”. From then on, even after returning to New York, the search for images became a constant practice for Evans: archives, libraries, and markets as places to intercept figures “waiting to be reinserted into the present”.