Wallpapers
Motif functions as a strategy of infiltration, concealing its intentions under a decorative guise. Repeated, it occupies the surface and turns the familiar into something obsessive.
Wallpaper intensifies this process. As a domestic support, it introduces a reassuring proximity while carrying political and cultural narratives. A burning monstera, emblem of globalized exoticism, or black-and-white GIFs from a disappearing amateur repertoire: both show how the minor or ornamental holds memory, tension, and ideology.
As Jeff Perrone wrote of Pattern & Decoration, “decoration becomes decontextualized by virtue of its being borrowed.” In this act of borrowing and displacement, motif ceases to be background: it contaminates space and unsettles the supposed neutrality of the decorative.
the man of our time who daubs the walls with erotic symbols to satisfy an inner urge is a criminal or a degenerate. »
Adolf Loos ❤
Untitled (Frozen Flowers)
