From non-places to commonplaces…and back?
Graffiti writing and street art’s paradigm shift between artification and deartification.
Abstract
If, like it has been shown with Blu’s self-iconoclasm cases, a complete and successful return to the non-places paradigm is no longer possible, it seems that its original ethos could only survive in a perpetual, Sisyphean struggle against the threat of deartification: the aesthetic specificity of the non-places paradigm can only be preserved or restored through symbolic actions, or through a transfiguration into something new, a constant aesthetic research that plays within the frames and the paradigms. It is the case of MOSA’s works, BULKY and Neo-Archeologia: they both embody, in almost an ironic manner, such an ambiguous and everlasting suspension between non-places and commonplaces.