Sergio Monje

Iconographic Re-signification: installation overview

Resignificación iconográfica

2024 , Cardboard banners (40 × 40 cm, 51 × 51 cm, 80 × 80 cm), workshop, action during the 21 July demonstration in Palma, photographic print (40 × 23 cm)

While researching the visual codes of air navigation—a closed sociolect of signs we see when flying but whose meanings remain arcane—I came across a symbol: a yellow cross on a red square, reminiscent of Hard-edge painting. Airports use it when conditions do not allow a plane to land.

Together with Es 4 Cantons, a popular cultural association in Felanitx, we held a banner-making workshop ahead of the 21 July demonstration against the tourism model in Palma. We collectively appropriated this icon to express the many demands that mobilised citizens that summer.

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