Like specters of the past, urban artist Jilly Ballistic prints old black and white photos, scaling them to different sizes depending on the final location where they will be exhibited, although she has a special fixation with the installations of the metropolitan.
This recurrent evocation of the past recovers part of the city's memory, updating it through urban art. Constructing a narrative discourse where the furniture sometimes alludes to the selected image, having a therapeutic effect on the viewer, sharing this duality past/present.
Another of the artifices that he frequently uses and by which his work is beginning to be identified, consists of pasting computer menus, decontextualizing the message printed on the billboards. This form of counter-advertising aims to divert the user's attention from the constant bombardment of advertising slogans.
Jilly Ballistic, is a street artist whose work can be seen and discovered in one of the many stations of the New York subway. Where he has become a regular suspect. So in most of the occasions his interventions seem to be made in an urgent and furtive way.
This premeditation and immediacy is translated in that a good part of actions, being practically branded as vandalism acts, operate in the public space in a very ephemeral way. Made in tangible places such as waste dumps or advertising media, their creations are a way of establishing a communication with public opinion.
THE MESSAGE HIDES BEHIND THE GAS MASK
Although she does not reject technology because in fact she began to show her creative concerns in the world of photography, a relationship that can be perceived in many of her projects. Gradually she was leaving it in the background.
According to her words, this distancing occurred at the moment when the digital era turned the act of taking photographs into an innocuous and compulsive act where reality became an image devoid of context. Breaking that relationship momentarily. A situation that is changing, returning to obtain that lost depth.
READ IT IN SPANISH: Jilly Ballistic, convierte el espacio público en un relato activista
The messages loaded with irony dilute the sense of the original message substituting it for another that distorts its purely commercial approach, substituting it for others that although apparently without any pretension, can even be catalogued as somewhat naive. They do have an evident political and activist discourse.
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