TWS Welcomes You
If you’re new here — welcome, and thank you for joining us.
Many of you arrived after our recent Instagram post about The New Wave of Collage, and we couldn’t be happier to see that idea sparking conversations, shares, and new community.
To us, The New Wave of Collage isn’t a trend — it’s a shift. A growing, global movement of artists who use collage not just as a medium, but as a mindset. A way of seeing. Of fragmenting, assembling, resisting. Of rewriting the world with what’s already there.
This newsletter is our way of keeping that conversation going — week by week (or so), artist by artist, gesture by gesture.
Here, you’ll find deep dives into the editorial content of The Weird Show: interviews, studio visits, book recommendations and new works from the TWS Gallery.
Let’s begin.
New on TWS: Andrea Burgay
Metaphors for things that are present through absence
In this recent interview, Andrea Burgay reflects on her relationship with collage as a layered, tactile and transformative process.
Her work starts with found materials and accumulates meaning through cutting, tearing, layering, sanding, sometimes even burying them. She speaks of her practice as “a poetic compression,” a way of creating metaphors that hold emotional and visual density.
Featured in Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers, her works feel both sculptural and archaeological — documents of matter, memory and transformation.
“Working with destruction and creation in my process, I have to gauge when to stop, when the sense of destruction feels overwhelming, or the sense of new beginnings becomes too cheerful. Preserving the moments when both are balanced conveys the idea that they are intertwined and both are needed to create the potential for something new.”
From the Weird Bookshelf: Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch
There’s something quietly powerful about how we touch the world — and how the world touches us back.
Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch (2024), by Erik Kessels, Thomas Sauvin and Karel De Mulder, collects anonymous found photographs of people in the act of touching.
No captions. Just moments of contact — absurd, tender, awkward, forgotten. A growing archive of haptics, framed through the lens of vernacular image-making.
It’s tactile without being tactile.
And a perfect companion to Burgay’s approach to materiality, memory and surface.
From our shop: Phantom Tigers & Parallel Papers Catalog
The first catalog from The Weird Show Gallery brings together artists who are reinventing collage—cutting, layering, and transforming it into something entirely new. Featuring Susana Blasco, Andrea Burgay, Jack Felice, Alma Haser, Paul Henderson, Miko Hornborg, and Mark Wagner.
Published by The Weird Show.
Softcover. 80 pages. English. 21 x 28cm
The original catalog will be available while the exhibition is up.
Stay Weird
Thanks for reading.
We’re glad you’re here.
More collage, more fragments, more community — coming soon.
— The Weird Show
I love that there is a platform for us collage artists! Thank you! We need to get rid of the notion that collage is not "real" art, or that collage is "crafty!". I've heard that my whole collage career so kudos to you for debunking this stupidness!