"Kitsch Kiosk": diploma project
This installation imitates, recreates and enhances amateur vernacular aesthetics, questioning the intuitive appropriation of graphic codes by non-professionals. The aim is to modify our perception of "infra-ordinary" graphic signs, omnipresent in our everyday environment. I have used visual codes observed in Istanbul and Paris, highlighting stereotypes in the design of business cards, flyers, shop-fronts, etc.
This installation imitates, recreates and enhances amateur vernacular aesthetics, questioning the intuitive appropriation of graphic codes by non-professionals. The aim is to modify our perception of "infra-ordinary" graphic signs, omnipresent in our everyday environment. I have used visual codes observed in Istanbul and Paris, highlighting stereotypes in the design of business cards, flyers, shop-fronts, etc.
In addition to my graphic creations, I present photographed references and those from the badturkishgraphics.com website. I chose to emphasize the form and aesthetics of these objects by replacing their content with obvious descriptions, thus creating a "tautology". By employing saturation and accumulation, I highlight the overproduction of vernacular design and our growing indifference to this abundance of graphic content.
