London streetposters, cardboard, staples, varnish
120 x 46 x 46 cm
Paris streetposters, cardboard, staples, varnish
67 x 42 x 42 cm
London streetposters, cardboard, staples, varnish
100 x 60 x 32 cm
Berlin streetposters, cardboard, staples, varnish
170 x 22 x 22 cm
Rotterdam streetposters, cardboard, staples, varnish
108 x 36 x 36 cm
SHIFTING PERSPECTIVE
2021–ongoing
As digitization progresses, the era of posters is coming to an end. Layers of information covering city walls will soon vanish. It will take decades before the anthropological value of these paper remnants is recognized as an abundant source of information about what we eat, what we do, who we vote for, and what problems we fight today. But what if it is too late by then? As a curator of current culture, Rita Osipova uses the formal language of the ancient Greeks to create modern artifacts. She collected street posters in Berlin, London, Paris, and Rotterdam and sculpted them into archaeological finds. What is now seen as trash may be unique pieces of heritage in the future.