14.12.2024-25.02.2025
FRESCO NO.1 BARIOSA HIEROGLYPHICA
GUILLAUME MARTIN-TATON
GUILLAUME MARTIN-TATON
This painting depicts a Baorisa hieroglyphica butterfly, a moth species known for employing aposematism. This phenomenon is an adaptive strategy some animals and insects use to keep their predators away through colour, odour or sound. For this butterfly, its colour and pattern serve as a danger signal. Some of these aposematic species are genuinely toxic, while others mimic these signals without being harmful, to benefit from asposematism’s protection.
The artist draws a link between aposematism and road signs. To what extent has the artificial demarcation of urban spaces become so rigid and instinctual for human beings? Consider the example of the black and yellow striped bands of the caution tape, reminiscent of a wasp’s warning patterns. Our urban living spaces are traced by symbols that guide our movements, becoming so ingrained that they seem unquestionable.
But what does it mean to inhabit spaces where every route is mapped out? How can we subvert this authoritarian system of signage codes by reappropriating its symbolic language?
The artist draws a link between aposematism and road signs. To what extent has the artificial demarcation of urban spaces become so rigid and instinctual for human beings? Consider the example of the black and yellow striped bands of the caution tape, reminiscent of a wasp’s warning patterns. Our urban living spaces are traced by symbols that guide our movements, becoming so ingrained that they seem unquestionable.
But what does it mean to inhabit spaces where every route is mapped out? How can we subvert this authoritarian system of signage codes by reappropriating its symbolic language?
Le Mur Dukat
Le Mur Dukat, managed by the members of Collectif Kimera, offers a platform for contemporary artists to create a fresco on this space of expression visible from the street. The invited artists are chosen for their connection, either through their work or in situ artwork, to the values of Collectif Kimera, including inclusivity, diversity and the fight against all forms of discrimination.