Violet Cheverez , Collages 1-5
January 29, 2025 - February 12, 2025
Violet Cheverez is a New York-based experimental animator. Collages 1-5 (2022–2024) is a short series of animated videos blending photos, video stills, drawings, and found imagery. Using both analog and digital techniques, Violet creates diaristic, moving collages that merge into fluid animated sequences.
Captured with toy cameras and iPhones, her photos are printed on malfunctioning printers, then layered together with tape, glue, and stitching. Her work explores themes of girlhood, artistic process, and the concept of time.
Violet deconstructs these videos, isolating still images that reflect her hands-on, analog approach—imbued with movement and time. Using collage, drawing, and print, she cleverly transforms three-dimensional life into two-dimensional compositions.
ANIMATIONS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
COLLAGE 1: HALFLIGHT, 2022
COLLAGE 2: SLOT ANGEL, 2022
COLLAGE 3: TOURIST, 2023
COLLAGE 4: DIARY, 2023
COLLAGE 5: LUCKY27, 2024