Margarita Brum
Visual Artist
Born in 1980, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
She graduated in Photography and Audiovisual Production and also attended courses in screen printing and clothing design.
As an artist, she currently explores the intersections between textile art and collage. Her work illustrates books, music albums, magazines, and communication campaigns.
In 2023, she received an honourable mention at the 9th National Illustration Prize (MEC, Uruguay) and has participated in several national and international exhibitions.
She believes collage is an extremely free technique, as it draws from multiple processes and cultural expressions — such as photography, illustration, painting, print media, and graphic advertising — and gives them new purpose and meaning through fragmentation, cutting, and recomposition of the original.
She is particularly interested in mixing materials and surfaces, and in the contrast between the elements within a collage — elements that may at first seem impossible to combine, yet somehow achieve harmony.
In her work, she enjoys blending fabrics with paper. She uses paints, threads, cut-outs, vintage photos, and acrylic paint. Sometimes she embroiders or sews some elements, appreciating the visible traces of manual handling and the analog process, which she likes to keep evident.