Colette, Justine & The Victorian Punks: Records from the Story of My Life, Mixed Media, 1978

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Colette, Justine & The Victorian Punks: Records from the Story of My Life, Mixed Media, 1978; mixed media signed by artist, 12.25 x 12.25 in.

Performance and installation artist Colette has been documenting her work since the mid-1970s in a series titled “Records from the Story of My Life,” twelve-inch square collages (sized like LPs) incorporating photographs embellished with paint and other materials. Colette assumed the persona of Justine & The Victorian Punks for this 1978 collage with an image connected to performances at the art space P.S.1, and in the window of the boutique Fiorucci. Colette has been the subject of an online exhibition at Gallery 98.

Colette, Justine, Fiorucci Window
For Colette the documentation of her temporary performances has become a fine art in itself. Her most interesting and attractive mode of documentation is the ongoing series “Records from the Story of My Life.” Each of these works is a twelve-inch square collage (sized like an LP) that incorporates photographs embellished with paint and other materials. Colette first began working in this long-running format in 1978.
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Colette: On the Streets and in the Clubs, 1972–1985
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Colette worked without inhibition. Acting out an inner-world of fantasies she began making photographic self-portraits, creating soft fabric environments in which she was often a crucial living presence, and exhibiting self-referential hybrid works that combined sculpture, painting, and photography.