Pauline Galiana literally uses leftovers from different stages of her own work -- ideas, forms, emotions or material. She collects with the patience of a forensic scientist, paper stripes emerging from her discarded and shredded documents, notes and artworks; she stiches her oil painting paper rags into apparently fragile floatings grids; she creates a personal diary--each having a theme or story--based on products she has consumed, and other sticky material that make their way into her life.

In New York, Galiana's work has been singled out by the UBS and Paine Webber collections and, through shows ranging from West 57th Street's Baron Boisanté to Ramis Barquet Gallery, now appears in private collections from New York to Paris to Riyadh, London and Sydney.