DECOLLAGES

The world of theatre meets the public eye on the walls of our cities. Calling to our attention the forth-coming instances of entertainment – hope, doom and prophecy.

And what is left behind after these events are absorbed into memory? As hands rip and tear the evidence from before our eyes, worlds collide. Earths pot of humanity stirs in a thickness of events and circumstance, history dissolves into a flat reality of interconnectedness. This work peals away the layers as the archeologist describes our memory horizontally.

Jacque Villegle and Raymond Hans of the Neo Realists (1953 Paris) established the recognition of the archeological wealth and political history of a society through the collection of conglomerate posters and advertising from the streets of Paris.

Before television and digital technology, radio, newspapers and posters where the means of informing the public and as the sound waves disappeared into the stratosphere, the posters left a residue juxtaposed in public at the mercy of ‘anonymous ripper’. This is a schizophrenic parade in the history of colour. printing and informing, where formal notices of authority collide with romantic scenes of entertainment.

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