Imbi Sõber

• 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.