STATEMENT

Patricia Juppet Ewing’s practice approaches analog collage as an investigative historical medium, a space of personal appropriation, and an exercise in architectural world-building. Operating as a living archive, her work explores material preservation, narrative psychology, and feminist post-memory.

Working strictly with paper and cardboard—vintage publications, early sci-fi ephemera, anonymous correspondence from the 18th to the 20th centuries, and handcrafted sheets—she rejects both digital reproduction and surface intervention, committing entirely to the structural and tactile authenticity of the found physical remnant. Influenced by early pre-digital science fiction imagery, Juppet Ewing constructs parallel universes and speculative landscapes where time folds in on itself: the mind journeying into the past to address the present.

Her compositions build spatial depth through physical layering, operating as psychological vignettes—a single, frozen frame capturing a fraction of a second inside a mind. Treating discarded paper as a vessel of latent history, her work focuses on the reconstruction of silenced biographies and the historical erasure of women. By reassembling anonymous archival fragments through a matriarchal perspective, she activates a space where transgenerational inheritance, female agency, and parallel realities converge.

BIO

Patricia Juppet Ewing (b. 1988, Santiago, Chile) is a visual artist, educator, and art historian specializing in analog collage. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with highest academic honors in Printmaking and Photography, as well as a Bachelor of Education from Universidad Finis Terrae. She has further expanded her theoretical research through a Master’s degree candidate in Art History (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez) and specialized postgraduate diplomas in Aesthetics, Feminism, and Criticism, as well as Art Therapy (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

In 2023, Juppet Ewing was selected for an international analog collage residency with the Kolaj Institute at the Merz Galerie in Sanquhar, Scotland. Her practice—strictly focused on found paper, cardboard, and archival research—has been exhibited widely across North America, South America, and Europe. Highlights include presentations at Superfine Art Fair (Brooklyn, NY), Spectrum Art Miami (Art Basel Week), The Other Art Fair (Dallas), BADA (Buenos Aires and Mexico City), and ArtStgo at GAM (Chile).

Her work and career have been featured in international press and publications, including Forbes, The Clinic, SuboArt Magazine, and Horror Vacui Magazine. Her original artworks form part of private collections throughout Chile, the United States, Latin America, and Europe. She currently lives and works in Santiago, Chile.