Jorge De la Garza / Untitled (Ghost in the Machine)
Jorge de la Garza is one such face. Recently returned from a five-year
stint in London completing his Fine Arts studies at both Central Saint
Martins and Chelsea College of Art, de la Garza works in the medium of
collages and sculptural installations. His time spent in his university library – and surreptitiously stealing
pages from its books – has resulted in collages whose imagery is a
seamless marriage of different time periods and yet whose final
aesthetic is entirely one of today. De la Garza´s work speaks the
language of the born in the 1980s¨ generation: a generation whose
knowledge of the world is largely derived from media images of it,
whilst simultaneously a generation who feels a distinct sense of
melancholy for a previous time never personally known.
