Despite their prohibition, graffiti advance further towards Mos­cow’s city centre. As a kind of non-conformist expression, graffiti are not tolerated. Instead of taking costly restoring measures, the public authorities have the house walls partially repainted in different colour shades of oil- and dispersion paint. Structured house walls come into being through these large multi-coloured sections.
Some house walls are systematically photographed, section-by-section, and then digitally pieced together to large formats. The texture of the wall and the paint structures are meticulously captured. A strong illusion of spatial depth is achieved by combining numerous individual perspectives. The wall sections with their repainted traces will be brought to other (exhibition-)spaces as large-sized photographic works/objects.

Wand 1. Übermalte Graffiti  Wall 1. Repainted Graffiti
Moscow. August 2009

Red Painting  Rote Malerei
Green Painting  Grüne Malerei
Garage Compounds  Garagenkörper
Green Chequerd Courtyard  Grünbunt im Innenhof
Gray in the Courtyard  Grau im Innenhof
Sheet Metall Wall  Blechwand
Pastell Colours  Pastellfarben
Yellow Pink Wall  Gelb-rosa Wand
Stained Wall  Bunte Wand
Transformer House Wall  Transformatoren-Haus-Wand

Wall from a small House. Repainted Graffiti
Wand vom kleinen Haus. Übermalte Graffiti  
Moscow. June 2011
Photographs / Digital Montage
Pigment Print on adhesive-backed Film. 465 × 275 cm