From murals to signs to billboards: the linguistic landscape of Messina

The exhibition will have as its object various types of writings displayed around the city, institutional (road signs, plaques…), commercial (billboards, shop signs…) and “illegal” (murals and doodles). Through photography, it will focus viewers’ attention on these examples of written Italian, normally overlooked and experienced passively. The reading guide proposed by the organizers will then illustrate their formal peculiarities, but will also reveal the communicative strategies that inspire them and the ways in which the language interacts with the surface that carries it and, more generally, the place in which it is laid, becoming part of the urban landscape.

PARTECIPANTI: Raphael Merida, Francesca Rodolico, Fabio Rossi, Fabio Ruggiano (DICAM)