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Ping Mag 2008 december 3.

Maria Stengard-Green: The World As Organic Décollage

hhEarly this year, London-based Swedish photographer Maria Stengard-Green went on a breathless city trip to re-discover what she calls organic décollage

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hhEarly this year, London-based Swedish photographer
Maria Stengard-Green went on a breathless city trip to re-discover what she calls organic décollage — the many layers of half-torn and weather-beaten posters and street art stickers that intertwine and mingle so often on walls in a visually beautiful code, giving way to interpretations. To discover and document these, she first went on a trip to New York, and afterward from London to Paris by train for a few days, followed by Rome, where she walked the streets with her Hasselblad during the day, hanging on warm Roman rooftops in the evenings. For PingMag, she wrote down her reflections of this global tour.

Written by Maria Stengard-Green

Wall patterns at the Campo de’ Fiori in Rome. © Maria Stengard-Green

First, this trip is a rediscovery of the organic décollage that not only echoes the pioneering work of Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Yves Klein, François Dufrene, and Rome’s own Mimmo Rotella. While organic décollage appears random as the mere effect of nature, it can also reflect the egos and ideals of the people who interfere with nature’s interference, creating layers, nuances and, sometimes, meaning.

Street art in New York: X-Men. © Maria Stengard-Green

When touring Hair in my previous life as an actor in the early 1980s, I had started photographing the Berlin Wall…

New York

Street art in New York commented with a pink tag saying “Candy.” © Maria Stengard-Green

I was not just interested in the singular, the purposeful, and the crafted. I am drawn to the accidentally collaborative layers of competing or disjointed minds that sometimes produce something telling, compelling, or beautiful. Every city is different behind the symbols of globalization and apparent homogenization, reflecting not just culture but present in historical politics and harsh economic realities…

Many layers for a new subtext in Rome. © Maria Stengard-Green

Socialist party poster with a new interpretation. © Maria Stengard-Green

Paris

Paris is not just an older, but also a tighter city than New York, and within the Périphérique ring-road it appears less expressive in terms of street art. That is not to say there is none!

Withered by time: Mal in Paris. © Maria Stengard-Green

Rome

Rome is a long way from Paris in more ways than one, and even further from New York. A looser city, as hidebound as its sisters I am sure, but with a less obvious controlling hand…

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