Clean City Tour
Spray on wall, video and maps
Variable measures
(Clean city tour view at Espaço Mirá, Porto, Portugal)In 2018 the city council of Porto was cleaning a lot of graffiti (a movement known as Buffing) but just the ones that they considered ugly or “not art”, leaving intact some other graffiti characters and murals that were made in the same ilegal way, in part so the tourists could see the “urban art” around the city. Clean City Tour is a piece in which I invite the viewers to do a tour around the Portuguese city, guided by a map, where they could find some Buff paintings. This Buff paintings are remade by me, using the same colors and shapes that the cleaners from the city council create when they buff a graffiti. In this way, all the esthetics and formal decisions of the painting are already made and I just reproduce them, comparing the movement of cleaning graffiti with the graffiti itself and turning this buffs into graffiti again.
Be an abstrac artist!
Digital print, 3D printing and stamp ink
Variable measures
Be an Abstract Artist comes from the same context as Clean City Tour. In this piece I created a photo book that shows the graffitis around the city. The viewer is invited to choose one of the stamps, one color and “clean” one of the graffitis in the book. In this sense they have to make the same formal and esthetic choices as the graffiti cleaners, chosen which graffiti deserves to stay in the book and which should be cleaned.