Xoubanova's book Graffiti evokes the urban artistic movement that appeared in
1970s New York, known for its self-centered and
identity. It is the fact of marking the public space of the city with its name,
repeat his tag from street to street, to declare his existence which interests here
Xoubanova. He sees in this phenomenon a parallel with current practices
social media and contemporary advertising discourse, which he has been studying for
long time. Xoubanova spent four years building this corpus
hybrid photographic, which brings together images alluding to a series of
topics, from communication and nature to social networks. The sequence
images illustrate and organize the multiplicity and redundancy of a
ever more vital affirmation of oneself (individual or collective) in the
form of the book. By breaking the rules (no cover, no
visible binding, unstructured layout) the book echoes the uses of
Graffiti. Which leads to an object described as baroque.
