PROPAGANDA

The installation is composed by five metal crowd control barriers, generally used to contain groups and mob behaviour, combined with a sound track mixing up political and religious personalities speeches collected on the web without any temporal or geographical distinctions.
Deconstructed, than vertically reassembled the barricades turn into an insurmountable, threatening boundary line, meanwhile the sound waves distortion causing yet the unintelligibility of the speech amplifies the viewer’s confinement feeling.
The title Propaganda references the Edward L. Bernays’s most famous essay concerning the public opinion manipulation’s theories.

«The voice of the people expresses the mind of people,
and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders
in whom it believes and by those persons
who understand the manipulation of public opinion»
Edward L. Bernays