Alienation…
This concept is becoming increasingly relevant as post-industrial society spreads to more and more megacities.
Alienation of everything and everyone…
Factories from their former workers.
Railway stations from the people who once moved away from them.
Young people from their similar but older counterparts.
All that’s left is social media and music on headphones.
Forcibly marginalised young people in depressed cities and countries come together to transform public spaces forgotten by people.
These generals of alienated spaces create their own world. They decorate with the means available to them: ornaments and writings.
Decor becomes a business card, a mark, a form of self-realisation, an example of the urban subculture of post-industrial society.
Clean and decent citizens want very much to shut themselves off from this world, reducing it to hooliganism.
But this phenomenon has become too mass.
Many wall works are too expressive and talented.