BANG BAN is a public-space intervention that responds to the abuse of power, interference in private space, corruption, humiliation and injustice.
The work uses the visual language of prohibition and instruction signs — familiar elements of the urban environment — to question how public space shapes social behaviour. Signs that appear neutral or practical often carry institutional authority. They regulate movement, define what is allowed, and gradually influence how society understands freedom.
Placed throughout the city, BANG BAN turns the language of control back into a field of public questioning. Under what conditions do we accept the status quo? Which social dynamics make us adapt to new restrictions? How do prohibitions become ordinary, and how does society become accustomed to the loss of shared public freedom?
2020, public-space intervention, Graz, Austria | 50 × A0 / 50 × A1 printed aluminium plates | with Kolia