Imbi Sõber
- Photography
- BA
- Buffing
- Tutor: Reimo Võsa-Tangsoo
- 3 concrete slabs with pigment prints 53 × 53 cm × 3 cm, 9 pigment prints 53 × 53 cm, video 6'52''
The term “buff” is used for any graffiti removal technique, be it overpainting or washing off. I am interested in how removing inappropriate graffiti from the city maintenance perspective can be seen as a separate gesture and as a dialogue between the city authorities and the street artists. In my work, I borrow the techniques of removers to express power relations in a public space.
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