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Artist: Alana Kolundzija (Washington)
Sold directly by the artist. Contact: alana@collectiveimpact.io. Please mention Pulp Stiction.
Year: 2025 | Medium: digital photographs, patterns, and images | Dimensions: 12 x 12 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D) | Digital work
Artist Statement
Taking Up Space is an evolving body of work that reimagines how we inhabit, contest, and co-create the world around us.
The project explores how monuments and public landscapes shape dominant narratives about power and belonging. It started as a series of digital collages set in front of iconic landmarks, such as the Supreme Court, positioning these civic spaces as sites of visibility and playful disruption. Many of the monuments I incorporate were designed to project permanence and authority. I am interested in what happens when those environments are interrupted by bodies, aesthetics, and forms of presence that have historically been excluded from them. People dressed in unconventional ways that defy the norms of civic and professional institutions appear in civic settings not simply to occupy space, but to transform their emotional and symbolic terrain.
The project is beginning to move beyond the digital realm. I have started hosting small participatory installations that invite people to gather and bring the collages to life. The first one took place at the Lincoln Memorial. Through intentional presence and playful leisure, participants reclaim public space as a site of belonging, visibility, and possibility. In this way, collage becomes more than a method of image-making. It is a way to imagine alternative futures and take the first steps toward collectively bringing them into being as an act of creative resistance.
About the Artist
Alana Kolundzija is a practical dreamer based in Washington D.C. As a curator and multi-disciplinary artist, her evolving body of work reimagines how we inhabit, contest, and co-create the world around us. Born in Chicago to an immigrant, working class family - and the first female in her family to graduate from college - her work is deeply informed by questions of belonging, visibility, and access.
Through mixed media collage, upcycled textiles, and participatory installations, she explores transformation and the politics of public space. Her work has been exhibited at the Decagon Gallery in Brooklyn. From the United Nations halls to farm fields and factory floors, her work at the intersection of global development and gender justice has taken her across more than 40 countries. She approaches art as both a creative and civic practice: one that invites people to playfully subvert expectations about power.
https://www.flairdesign.studio/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: Alana Kolundzija (Washington)
Sold directly by the artist. Contact: alana@collectiveimpact.io. Please mention Pulp Stiction.
Year: 2025 | Medium: digital photographs, patterns, and images | Dimensions: 12 x 12 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D) | Digital work
Artist Statement
Taking Up Space is an evolving body of work that reimagines how we inhabit, contest, and co-create the world around us.
The project explores how monuments and public landscapes shape dominant narratives about power and belonging. It started as a series of digital collages set in front of iconic landmarks, such as the Supreme Court, positioning these civic spaces as sites of visibility and playful disruption. Many of the monuments I incorporate were designed to project permanence and authority. I am interested in what happens when those environments are interrupted by bodies, aesthetics, and forms of presence that have historically been excluded from them. People dressed in unconventional ways that defy the norms of civic and professional institutions appear in civic settings not simply to occupy space, but to transform their emotional and symbolic terrain.
The project is beginning to move beyond the digital realm. I have started hosting small participatory installations that invite people to gather and bring the collages to life. The first one took place at the Lincoln Memorial. Through intentional presence and playful leisure, participants reclaim public space as a site of belonging, visibility, and possibility. In this way, collage becomes more than a method of image-making. It is a way to imagine alternative futures and take the first steps toward collectively bringing them into being as an act of creative resistance.
About the Artist
Alana Kolundzija is a practical dreamer based in Washington D.C. As a curator and multi-disciplinary artist, her evolving body of work reimagines how we inhabit, contest, and co-create the world around us. Born in Chicago to an immigrant, working class family - and the first female in her family to graduate from college - her work is deeply informed by questions of belonging, visibility, and access.
Through mixed media collage, upcycled textiles, and participatory installations, she explores transformation and the politics of public space. Her work has been exhibited at the Decagon Gallery in Brooklyn. From the United Nations halls to farm fields and factory floors, her work at the intersection of global development and gender justice has taken her across more than 40 countries. She approaches art as both a creative and civic practice: one that invites people to playfully subvert expectations about power.
https://www.flairdesign.studio/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.