Peter Fuss on “Culture Clash”
A subway car here in Boston carries graffiti scratched on the window in Arabic. I can’t read or speak the language it’s written in, but whoever scratched away inspired me to imagine a stencil graffiti campaign with the words “peace,” “love,” and maybe even “resistance” written in Arabic to challenge the xenophobia that pervades talk of terrorism and war.
Peter Fuss has exacted a project that is one better. He reclaims billboards to examine and evaluate present, socially taboo subjects. Take that, Samuel Huntington!
Fuss resides in Poland. With characteristic means, namely simple and clear form, he comments on politics, the relationships between religion and authority, flashy religiosity, social problems and art.
Also check out his response to Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God - the platinum skull covered by 8,601 diamonds - called For the Laugh of God, in which he polished 9,870 glass pieces to look like diamonds and knocked a tooth out of the skull.
Via Rebel Art.
Previously at Groundswell:
