I’m Inside - Tagging architecture in Eastern European cold war propaganda postcards
| Author | Gabriel Jones |
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| Publisher | Set Margins' |
| ISBN | 9789083579573 |
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| Status | not yet published |
By making collages of the communist, brutalist architecture presented on tourist postcards (947-1991) which suggests great space, with disruptive tags found on murals worldwide (2010-2025), artist photographer Gabriel Jones blends the top down and the grass roots, the sublime and the subluminal as well as past and present political context. This decontextualisation causes a humorist effect, while simultaneously bringing a weird kind of recognizability into the picture on the postcard. The tags on the facades show what many of us intuitively naïve or speculatively critical think. It shows a resilience to imposed superstructures, and an alternative to the tourist experiences. This dynamic easily lends itself to mirror against the superstructures proposed by contemporary politicians. Be it in our minds, shared with others socially or by tagging places yourself. The juxtapositions in these collages’ express the resilience of the liberty people take towards facades imposed upon us.
| 140 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 13 cm, hb, English |
Set Margins'
