“ALERT NOT ALARM” (Aesthetics of Terror)
Embroidery on Fabric
Series of interior decorating fabrics embroidered with phrases or works taken from police notices and other public announcements by the authorities.
The rich interior decorating fabrics, with flowers and plants, correspond to our private spaces, and to the Gated Communities. This camouflaged phrase, like others that I produced (“You don’t have to be sure”, “Don’t rely on others”, “Report anything suspicius”, “Trust”) appears as the bombing advices that we receive consciously or unconsciously in the everyday life.
The project centers on the opacity of our perception of the world and on how our ability to recognize ourselves and others has weakened over the last decades. It is also about how the continuous sense of danger, be it real or fictitious, is managed and increased in our lives.
We have to be steadily in a state of alert.
The media constantly floods us with images and stories of danger related to terrorism, immigration, illness, and brutal crimes. The emphasis is on the effects of these crimes as opposed to their possible causes. As a result, we are encompassed by nebulous uncertainty and fear, which leave us dazed and distorted.
Series of interior decorating fabrics embroidered with phrases or works taken from police notices and other public announcements by the authorities.
The rich interior decorating fabrics, with flowers and plants, correspond to our private spaces, and to the Gated Communities. This camouflaged phrase, like others that I produced (“You don’t have to be sure”, “Don’t rely on others”, “Report anything suspicius”, “Trust”) appears as the bombing advices that we receive consciously or unconsciously in the everyday life.
The project centers on the opacity of our perception of the world and on how our ability to recognize ourselves and others has weakened over the last decades. It is also about how the continuous sense of danger, be it real or fictitious, is managed and increased in our lives.
We have to be steadily in a state of alert.
The media constantly floods us with images and stories of danger related to terrorism, immigration, illness, and brutal crimes. The emphasis is on the effects of these crimes as opposed to their possible causes. As a result, we are encompassed by nebulous uncertainty and fear, which leave us dazed and distorted.
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