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Artist: Magda Parasidis (Columbus, OH)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2025 | Medium: Collaged C-print photographs, dyed snakeskin, magazine paper, and acrylic mounted on paper | Dimensions: 6” x 6” each, 17” x 17” framed inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
Kites is a series of, 6 x 6 inch collages made using c-prints, watercolor, embroidery, fabric, ink marker and acrylic on paper. The photographs originate from a series I made in 2020 depicting the carceral geography of the NY public housing I was raised in. Kites refer to the notes that are the primary written method for imprisoned people to express a need, but also a way to “fly” a message from one person to another secretly. It is in this clandestine making of an object for connection, and in underground networks of communication, that my project rests. I’m exploring how creative practices are used as means of survival, and how subjugated spaces can become utopic spaces.
About the Artist
Magda Parasidis is a Columbus, OH based visual artist and designer. Born in Greece and raised in public housing in Queens, NY, her photocollage and book projects focus on the intersection of economic and racial justice with poor people’s rights in the feminist perspective. Parasidis’s text-based art and photography has been exhibited widely, and is held in both private and public collections. The monograph Magda Parasidis: Ghosts in Sunlight was published in 2021 to accompany a solo exhibition at Otterbein University, where she teaches the history of art in protest movements. Her debut photobook and poetry collection, One/Two, was published in 2026. You can visit her @magdaparasidis.
https://www.magdaparasidis.com/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: Magda Parasidis (Columbus, OH)
Sales for this work are handled by Pulp Stiction. Payment is made through this page.
Year: 2025 | Medium: Collaged C-print photographs, dyed snakeskin, magazine paper, and acrylic mounted on paper | Dimensions: 6” x 6” each, 17” x 17” framed inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
Kites is a series of, 6 x 6 inch collages made using c-prints, watercolor, embroidery, fabric, ink marker and acrylic on paper. The photographs originate from a series I made in 2020 depicting the carceral geography of the NY public housing I was raised in. Kites refer to the notes that are the primary written method for imprisoned people to express a need, but also a way to “fly” a message from one person to another secretly. It is in this clandestine making of an object for connection, and in underground networks of communication, that my project rests. I’m exploring how creative practices are used as means of survival, and how subjugated spaces can become utopic spaces.
About the Artist
Magda Parasidis is a Columbus, OH based visual artist and designer. Born in Greece and raised in public housing in Queens, NY, her photocollage and book projects focus on the intersection of economic and racial justice with poor people’s rights in the feminist perspective. Parasidis’s text-based art and photography has been exhibited widely, and is held in both private and public collections. The monograph Magda Parasidis: Ghosts in Sunlight was published in 2021 to accompany a solo exhibition at Otterbein University, where she teaches the history of art in protest movements. Her debut photobook and poetry collection, One/Two, was published in 2026. You can visit her @magdaparasidis.
https://www.magdaparasidis.com/
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.