Made from fragments of
lacerated posters and altered urban surfaces, this work extends Vhils's
reflection on non-places and contemporary spaces of transit. The composition,
almost entirely dissolved into a white, stratified matter, seems to hover
between appearance and effacement, like an urban memory in the process of
erosion. The typographic traces, tears and layers of torn paper evoke the walls
of the Parisian metro, saturated with images, information and anonymous
passages. Through a subtractive gesture of scraping and excavation, the artist
reveals the various strata accumulated within the matter, transforming these
ordinary surfaces into sensitive archives of collective movement. The work thus
becomes an interstitial space: a suspended site where the fragile traces of
human trajectories and urban time persist.