Deeper and sweeter — Over and Over Project

It Gets Sweeter and Sweeter, It Gets Deeper and Deeper by Allan Espiritu is one of three projects for the Barnes Foundation’s exhibition Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, on view February 25–May 22, 2017. The "mural" is made up of 350, 14" x 22" posters, individually wheat pasted on a 24 x 50 foot facade of 915 Spring Garden Building. Philadelphia.

As part of a larger series of works entitled Over and Over, Espiritu uses pop lyrics to explore ideas of psychological control and the aesthetics of desire, consumption, and saturation. The works avoid traditional pictorial representation, instead choosing language and typography as the mode of expression while visually referencing the over-saturated, repetitively abundant American pop culture landscape that bombards people everyday. Pop lyrics are the central image and taken out of context speak no longer speak of bubbly, all consuming first love, but reference a love of a different kind—of the media and consumerism.

https://personofthecrowd.org/

Photo Credit: Eric Sison Photography

Over and Over Project — It gets sweeter and Sweeter, It gets Deeper and Deeper —Spring Garden Timelapse

Over and Over Project — It gets sweeter and Sweeter, It gets Deeper and Deeper —Spring Garden Timelapse

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