3D drawings on graph paper. 44 x 29,7 cm

In 1908, Adolf Loos wrote the essay Ornament and Crime , a harsh critique of the ornamental drive on everyday objects, of which he stated that in the future we would be able to indulge and which he considered “a burden on society”. Similarly, just as ornament self-justifies and hides its lack of content and values ​​in superfluous rhetoric, the warlike tendency of our society self-justifies itself behind economic rhetoric and the supposed geostrategic and security balances of world politics.

This series develops a set of works, in which the fences, as urban modules, become phrases of an ornamental compositional order that incorporates the names of some of the main military operations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, grouped in various relationships and semantic correspondences.

Just as the urban planning of cities camouflages in ornamental patterns the strategy of their defensive fortification, these works are presented as projects for the parodic occupation of the public space of the city, from an anti-monumentalist attitude and with the intention to unmask the economist logic and warlike attitudes of our political and social system.