Wallpaper, 2015

Wallpaper, 2015

Wallpaper, consists of collected images, screenshots from the internet in order to create a certain pattern and finally reproduce them in the form of Wallpaper. Images of current world events that are recognizable, images that carry in them the horror, may they be latent, suggested or present.

The bombings, the weapons, the scenes of arrests would become physically the setting of our daily life. The use of wallpaper would neutralize these images: it affirms both their omnipresence in our lives and the relative detached disinterest we have towards them as a consequence of their repetitive nature. The images of September 11, although embedded in our memories, do not move us anymore, for they have been assimilated, absorbed and digested. The horror is replaced with the historic event, written and disembodied. Through effects of reduction to essential forms, games of symmetry and inversely, the motifs would acquire an aesthetic quality and reveal their brutality only to the one who approaches them and gives them a conscientious look. The process of "awakening" or revelation to this information would therefore be the opposite of that experienced in front of our screens: ordinarily the shock would follow. The effect would be all the more obvious as it would be unexpected.