Lady Dada is an artist from Turkey who has been living in Milan for years. She creates collages and photomontages using clippings from newspapers, magazines, and original photographs, mostly from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. This entirely analog and artisanal technique allows her to compose and recompose reality with the intention of surpassing the meaning of the images, discovering their metaphysical and symbolic side.

In her collages, the figures are mostly feminine, and her research focuses on a certain type of feminine aesthetic – affirmative, disruptive, elegant – which is characteristic of the 1960s and 1970s. However, while in the collages of feminist neo-avant-garde artists of those years, such as Ketty La Rocca, the visual language was strongly political, in Lady Dada’s works, words lose their semantic meaning, and the images blend together according to a more private, secretive, and ironic plane.

Lady Dada was born in Istanbul in 1975 but has been living in Milan for years.

With a degree in Business Administration, she is also a photographer and cinephile. She started composing her collages during the pandemic and hasn’t stopped since then. She says of herself: “Lady Dada as an artistic character was born as an expression of the dynamism and fragmentation that are part of me and that have found their ideal expression in the collage technique. Art brings creativity and color into my life and makes me feel less alone.” Her works have been exhibited in a solo show at the BeerGallery in Milan (“Words for Everyone”) and in a group exhibition at the Temporary Design Gallery in Monza.

Lady Dada contributed animated artwork for the 3kStatic album Telestial – as featured on Spotify.