This serie aims to be a documentation of language in urban spaces. You could say it is visual communication or even so-called “graphic design” — nevertheless what it is or not, it was documented mostly in the metropolitan area of France in the years 2019, 2020 and 2021.
When I come across situations, for example a broken billboard, my fascination lies into the transformation of it. The fact that this billboard no longer serves its original purpose does not make it what it was intended for. A transformation of visual communication takes place. A message changes its communication and the nature of it. The same applies for graffiti on house walls or objects. Through a placed message, the actual object changes its communication and becomes, so to speak, misappropriated.
The fascination of finding and photographing such misappropriated messages in urban space has long tempted me. In France, I could find many of these messages. Sometimes they were political, informal, humorous, or all of the aforementioned. Of course, to understand them or find their joke, you have to understand the language - that’s why I translated photos, where the message is important to understand the photo.
A second thing that fascinates me. are handwritten signs or instructions. Where signs are usually designed according to fixed guidelines and a certain size to ensure their legibility and get the information across, handwritten signs often have the opposite effect. This is basically the same effect as with the broken billboard. The communication changes.
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