14092005 - copenhagen

This journey could have been like others, an exalted conquest of foreign trains, with no future. Crossing Copenhagen where the city is not \nnot so much visited as only the approaches to railway tracks. Attention is paid to local graffiti, different models of trains, ways to infiltrate depots. Actions follow one another, solutions are found, layers \nd paintings, exits, returns to the hotel. \nWe know Rap's precision when it comes to telling things seen and experienced. In 14092005 the facts are related day after day, almost hour by hour. From start to finish the story and the images respond to each other, each anecdote finds a photo to illustrate it. The camera follows him to the prison where Rap manages to introduce him, the story is crazy. \nThe group's arrest gives the journey an unexpected twist. The raw actions give way to a narrative without temporal reference, settling into time under constraint. The corridors, the exercise yard, the cell are described with acuity, in their smallest details. \nThe meetings in the courtyard are so many windows onto other paths, so many lives that find themselves at the same point, breathing the same air. \nThere is no longer any question of a railway network, a new map is being deployed, more international. Visions of the world are exchanged, there is thinking. It is fascinating.

\nThis book is an important testimony. One of the few where we understand how graffiti, which guides the author's every day, can be a way to enter life, perhaps the best way to talk about the world and move around in it. \n( Guillaume Pellay , Painting Editions )