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Exquisite Community
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Exquisite Community features figurative collage works created by collaborating artists in the Greater Portland area. Based on the Surrealists’ game of “Exquisite Corpse” from 100 years ago, bodies are composed of four sections: head, upper torso and arms, lower torso and upper legs, and lower legs and feet. Participating artists create their sections in secrecy, building disparate parts toward a whole body.
Now entering its sixth year, Exquisite Community began in 2021 in response to an open call by Kolaj Magazine. Since 2018, they have sponsored World Collage Day every May to raise global awareness of this accessible medium. The project’s original renaming to Exquisite Community from its Corpse origins emphasized the participants’ vital connectivity beyond the isolating effects of the COVID epidemic. This impulse continues as a healing counterpoint to all forms of societal divisiveness.
Come view the exhibit of 18 extraordinary artworks curated from an amazing collection of 41 that spans 2021-2025. Witness several dozen artists’ explorations, many of whom are members of PNWCC/Pacific Northwest Collage Community. Each artist shows what they found contained within a bodily section, then comprising a wildly abstract group of figures, full of feelings and ideas.