Whispers, Hubbubs and Paradoxes: The Poster

It is often in the simplicity that the magnificence of things lies. In the case of Whispers, Hubbub, and Paradoxes, it is the poster that acts as a receptacle for all the identifying elements on which the exhibition is based. Simple elements, handwriting and popular stories condense this collective creation, which moves away from conventional narratives to a much more handcrafted treatment.

As the curatorial text emphasises, all the elements of the exhibition are oriented towards the materiality of enunciations. In the case of the poster, understanding it as an image rather than as a text was one of the initial conditions for its materialisation. The text on the poster is in fact handwritten or hand-drawn from a main typeface that acts as a guide. Following this logic, a plastic background of red tones has been created, with pink reflections and sprays of white that favour the communicative association and generate a universe of aesthetic elements that connects all the areas of the project.

The poster also incorporates a small stamp in the upper left-hand corner, called taburete conmovido (moved stool), which is based on a popular story and, at the same time, blends seamlessly with the title of the exhibition. This resting place is balanced between the very paradoxes that the exhibition calls into question: between whispering and hubbub between silence and dominant narratives. The stool, therefore, visually synthesises the tensions of the exhibition and is integrated into the fundamental gesture of the poster: to consecrate a vocabulary of aesthetic elements that favour the circulation of all the resonances and consequences of Whispers, Hubbub and Paradoxes. Attempts towards a politics of enunciation.