Olga Titus
Overview
I love to create complexity; a cosmos or a universe with a lot of details and many small parts in it. Even the big artworks are in themselves very small.
Swiss/Malaysian artist Olga Titus plays with varying forms of expression and diverse cultural codes using video, animation, collage and photography. She composes colorful photo-collages digitally animating and transforming them into a series of symbolist narratives. Figures taken from Indian miniature painting meet with Chinese paper-cuts amid folkloristic scenery; imagery from a contemporary fitness center is mixed with family portraits lifted from social media platforms using the aesthetics of popular simplistic video games. The artist plays with these diverse settings and characters, juggling their corresponding conventions of representation and self-display. As the daughter of a Swiss mother and Malayan/Indian father, Titus’ family background has sharpened her understanding for cultural and national stereotypes. Referencing the often sentimental films of Bollywood cinema, she uses them as a blueprint for self-dramatization within her own work.