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Gabriel Jones: I'm Inside: Tagging Architecture in Eastern European Cold War Propaganda Postcards

by Gabriel Jones
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789083579573
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Set Margins' Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Set Margins' Publications
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  • Pages: 140
  • Original Price: USD 29.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 341 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Individual Photographers / Artists' Books

Superimposing contemporary graffiti tags onto Soviet architecture postcards, Jones' photomontages invoke a perpetual form of resistance to government superstructures

Through a mashup of mid-century state-sanctioned brutalist architecture and contemporary undercover graffiti tags, artist photographer Gabriel Jones remixes Soviet postcards of the 20th century into photomontages with an updated message. Top-down meets grassroots and sublime and subliminal clash in these kitschy collages: sometimes cynical, sometimes cheeky, sometimes profound. Each structure gains a slogan such as "Honk if you don't exist"; "Make Orwell fiction again"; "Microsoft is a crazy thing to name your company"; and "Communist jokes are only funny if everyone gets them." Such decontextualization provides a humorous effect, but also brings a sort of recognizability to the new image on the postcard. This dynamic shows humanity's innate resilience to imposed superstructures--be it only in our minds or among our communities--which in turn lends itself to a mirror by which to view the superstructures imposed by contemporary politicians.

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