“The city has always been a stage where power is manifested, and aesthetically so ... the encounter between art & politics is unavoidable, as both inhabit the common, aesthetic sphere of being together: at stake in this encounter is the relation between consensus and dissensus, compliance and contestation, and this the consequent framing and reframing of the common.”

-           Political Graffiti in Critical Times - Andrea Pavoni, Yiannis Zaimakis and Ricardo Campos

'Power Play' offers an alternative perspective on the censorship and power struggle unfolding in urban spaces. By presenting covered-up graffiti as unintentional abstract public art, it argues that these interventions represent an unknown performative exchange between the authority and suppressed social actors . The resulting layered formations become an integral part of our urban aesthetic, leaving behind evidence of 'sanitisation' and the contraction of public space.

POWERPLAY