Who Killed the World?
2025
White neon
200 x 147 x 5 cm
All images © Fábio Colaço
2025
White neon
200 x 147 x 5 cm
All images © Fábio Colaço
The work contextualizes an ephemeral, anonymous
graffiti message found in the streets of Lisbon, transposing it into the
enduring medium of neon, an act that both subverts and preserves its transient
essence. By crystallizing an otherwise easily dilatable urban inscription, the
piece captures a moment of spontaneous expression, suspending it in a luminous,
perpetual state that resists erasure. This transformation imbues the message
with a paradoxical duality, amplifying its presence while simultaneously
altering its raw, insurgent nature. Merging with irony and subversion, the work
challenges the instability of contemporary discourse, positioning itself at the
intersection of resistance and uncertainty. Its permanent glow does not merely
illuminate the original feeling but complicates its meaning, inviting a
multiplicity of interpretations that include defiance, ambiguity and the
precariousness of the future. Through this interplay, the piece challenges the
boundaries between perpetuity and impermanence, visibility and erasure,
questioning and certainty.