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Tagging

When someone does somewhere a tag is like wanting to show others that came from there. It is a way to say, showing his ego. And what you write will be targeted primarily to the audience (in this case to graffiti writers). Plays practically himself by giving him a nickname, which can sometimes mean something and nothing other-and placing it where he wants to legally or illegally, in black or color, spray or brush, consciously or unconsciously, calligraphic or destroying. And all this in order to dominate with his tag against the tags of the city. The Tagging is a stop-frame video loop 39 seconds done in an attempt to undermine the code of graffiti, showing the most common tags that are in Athens and squeezing them all in a space 1,5 x 3 meters where eventually no one dominates.

Michael Vroulos