Antonio M. Xoubanova and David Mozzetta altered several copies of Graffiti using markers, adhesive tape, scissors, spray paint, folds and other techniques. Each became a unique work, distinct from the other copies in the edition. This is intervention No. 6.
 
Graffiti is an urban movement born in 1970s New York. Young people took to the streets to write their names across the city, refining their skills to assert their existence in a world that denied it through economic and social mechanisms.
 
In this context, graffiti can be seen as an exercise in exalting the ego, much like the mechanisms continually visible today on social media and in modern advertising.
 
This work seeks to describe graffiti as a metaphor for competition between selves, whether individual or collective, corporate or anonymous. It also addresses the visual and sonic disturbance in the city caused by others' constant battle for self-affirmation.
 
In 1930, photographer Brassaï developed a project with the same title, Graffiti. He sought the unconscious dimension of a particular historical period, bringing it to light through what he saw in streets and on walls. This Graffiti starts from the same dynamic, adding the superficial and aesthetic layers that overlay the essence of being human.
 
Antonio M. Xoubanova