Vhils Portuguese, 1987
66 7/8 x 47 1/4 in
The work presents a densely
textured surface, where remnants of advertising posters are cut into, revealing
fragmented images and texts. This technique creates a relief effect, lending
the piece a sculptural quality that transcends traditional two-dimensional
collage. This work transposes the imaginary of the Parisian metro into a
lacerated, stratified composition, where the image appears to surge forth from
a wall saturated with torn posters, traces and urban fragments. The human
figures appear as fugitive presences, caught within a network of tears,
superpositions and materials that evoke both the passage of time and the visual
intensity of the city, oscillating between collective memory, effacement and
reconstruction. What this series ultimately reveals is less a critique of the
non-place than an attentiveness to what it nonetheless contains. Beneath the
apparent neutrality of transit surfaces, the artist recovers the trace of what
resists: the persistence of a humanity that functional spaces never quite manage
to erase.
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