Roee Idah, known online as Roeizm, constructs surreal digital collages that merge nostalgic imagery with vast cosmic environments, producing scenes where time periods and spatial logic collapse into a single, dreamlike continuum. His compositions frequently draw on vintage photographic material — figures dressed in mid-20th-century fashion, archival poses, and analog textures — recontextualized within expansive skies filled with planets, moons, and celestial bodies. This juxtaposition between the familiar past and an imagined cosmic scale echoes broader collage traditions that rely on fragmentation and recombination to generate new meanings, where disparate visual elements are assembled into cohesive yet uncanny narratives.
Across his works, human presence is not merely inserted into these altered landscapes but becomes integral to their psychological tone: solitary figures wander through terrains where Earth appears suspended above the horizon or where multiple celestial forms dominate the sky, creating a quiet tension between intimacy and infinity. The digital precision of the compositions enhances their seamlessness, allowing impossible environments to feel internally consistent rather than chaotic. This balance between technical control and imaginative rupture places Idah’s practice within a contemporary lineage of digital collage that explores perception, memory, and the elasticity of reality — using contrast between scale, era, and environment to suggest alternative worlds that feel both distant and strangely recognizable.
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in Bahia.