Mi-e dor de tine/I miss you, explores the feeling of void through a series of images based on a public space intervention that took place between Geneva and Versoix.
The purpose, to test if a message as personal, private, intimate, as I miss you can go from A to B. A is leaving traces, is marking/mapping a specific territory, and, in doing so, A hopes that B will see the signs and decode the message.
The intervention consists in post-its on which I have written I miss you (in Romanian) and then pasted them throughout the city. Like basic graffiti, when two lovers write their names on one of Eiffel Tower’s legs, A+B=LOVE. But there’s nothing permanent here, there is no total attribution, occupation of that place, surface, space. Like feelings, post-its wither away. And ultimately, everyone who encountered the post-its could have, if he/she wished, decoded the message; thus B becomes everyone.
I have written I miss you more than 200 times, so many times that the words and their meaning dissolved, formatting/lobotomizing the brain. Like in the movie Pontypool, where the cure for the disease was found in language itself, in culture, in the meaning and understanding of the words. Once the words and their letters are scrambled the meaning dissipates, and then...
There is nothing, silence.
In the end the post-it stands as a cut-out in a selected reality, in a digital image, the memory of a gesture, questioning the way we attach (paste) ourselves to people, places and images.
I Miss You at Desire is War, Brukenthal, Sibiu, Romania
exhibition shots by Stefan Jammer
