Artist Interviews 2025

Zazie Productions
By Johnny Otto



Zazie Kanwar-Torge, professionally known as Zazie Productions, creates work that is both explosive and intricately layered, drawing viewers into dense compositions where line, color, and form collide. His drawings are packed with distorted faces, symbolic glyphs, anatomical fragments, and mechanical echoes, producing overwhelming surfaces that pulse with energy. Heavy, restless linework forms the foundation of each piece, vibrating across the page with a sense of instability, while bold colors—reds, yellows, electric blues, and fleshy tones—intensify the emotional charge. The effect is one of dissonance and overload, mirroring the fractured nature of memory, perception, and psychic experience. Central to Zazie’s visual language is his treatment of the face. Rarely whole or intact, his faces are distorted, fused with other forms, or broken into fragments, resembling masks or cyborgian hybrids. They do not portray individuals so much as inner states—splintered identities caught between persistence and dissolution. Skulls, skeletal hands, and exposed teeth recur throughout, not as symbols of death alone but as reminders of mortality’s constant presence within consciousness. The density of imagery generates a sense of too muchness, evoking the sensory saturation of modern life, where clarity is drowned out by simultaneity.





Thematically, his works operate as unstable archives, suggesting that memory and perception are never fixed but constantly shifting. Symbols, marks, and surreal cartographies scatter across his surfaces, hinting at coded systems of meaning but ultimately resisting a single reading. These are maps of interior landscapes rather than external worlds, demanding active engagement and rewarding close study. Each piece becomes a confrontation with chaos, a reminder of how the human mind wrestles with overload and fragmentation. Emotionally, the work is raw and claustrophobic, enveloping viewers in a storm of anxiety, dissonance, and haunting imagery. Yet it is also magnetic, inviting prolonged engagement as details continue to reveal themselves. Intellectually, the works function like puzzles, full of recurring motifs and layered references, but they deny any final resolution, reflecting the unstable architecture of thought itself.





Positioned at the intersection of outsider energy and conceptual rigor, Zazie’s drawings recall the urgency of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the grotesque surrealism of George Grosz, and the psychedelic density of underground comics, yet they remain distinctly his own. His art is not chaotic for its own sake but deliberate in its inquiry, asking how identity, memory, and mortality fracture and reform under pressure. Ultimately, Zazie Productions produces visual mindscapes that are overwhelming yet precise, claustrophobic yet magnetic—demanding not passive looking, but immersion into the dissonant interiors of perception.