Using personal memories, documentary photographic material, found footage and self-shot images and tape recordings, Elvis Borrey explores notions of immigration and identity.
Elvis explores themes of identity, as a reflection of oneself and their values. Pieces brought together, puzzle pieces that make up an identity.
Physical fragments of our surrounding media reality taken out of context and used as building blocks for new constructions of meaning and as a basis for critical reflections.
The artist believes that all ideas emerge from a collective memory and therefore ideas are not owned by individuals but by the public.
The choice of photographic material in this is thus far from neutral and thus sharpens the technique of photomontage.
A search for "meaning" in an age when a proliferation of images has renamed the world a "forest of signs.
A sequence of recordings, of fragments and thoughts, of being captured by small things. allowing both the question and the answer, at that specific moment, to take shape.