"Belén Segu found her dreamy, surreal style of image making somewhere in between her layers on Photoshop. Approaching the tool as a way to uncover the endless possibilities for "distorting and manipulating" a singular image, the Chilean visual artist has been following what she refers to as an "erratic process - endless filters, brushes, effects, dislocations, and layers upon layers upon layers" forming new images out of old ones."
"With this precious source imagery Belén sets out to replicate, distort and "stretch pixels until they burst", working until a completely different picture appears: "a new, hybrid image, made with a mixed technique - a technique that I don't even really know myself", she says. This explains why each of Belén's illustrations are made completely differently. Some of her works are of things that she might have painted partly, some are interpretations of objects she found on eBay and reimaged as something else entirely."
Belén Segu creates dreamy, surreal images by layering and manipulating found imagery in Photoshop. She collects objects such as porcelain figures, jewelry, furniture and desserts that evoke a certain past era and archives them as source material. Segu uses an erratic process of endless filters, brushes, effects, dislocations and repeated layers to distort and merge elements. She stretches pixels and recombines parts into new hybrid images using mixed techniques, sometimes painting elements and sometimes reimagining objects from sources like eBay. Final pieces read as softened, unified grotesque photomontages that feel like surreal flea-market fever dreams.
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