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Foto © Michele Lapini 2024

Our times are times of war.
Colonial, imperial, global.
Cold, open, holy.
Religious, lightning, total.
Preventive, asymmetrical, nuclear.
A direct consequence of capitalism.
A means of resolving international disputes that we should reject, at least on paper.
And as in all times of war, it is sold to us as inevitable, a logical consequence, without alternatives.
The narratives that accompany it tell us that war is inevitable (like capitalism?). The collection of signs and symbols that depict it, the system of meaning that supports it every day – war scenarios, armed semantics, galleries of HD photos that have even ceased to be disturbing.

24.10
Poster for Cheap Festival 2024
Open call

Location: via Antonio Cavalieri Ducati, Bologna, Italy
Year: 2024 (1—30 September)
Media: digital illustration, 200×140 cm
Status: selected, realised

Organiser, text: Cheap Festival
Design: Valerio Poltrini
Photography: Michele Lapini, Giulia Rosco

200 poster in strada per sabotare la retorica della guerra, Exibart, 10 Sep 2024
Con i tank contro la guerra, L’Espresso, 14 Oct 2024