Stickers Collection

During his stay in Rome Mathieu Tremblin was attracted by the stickers. Walking through the streets of the city he became aware of the massive presence of stickers, which he then detached from poles, shutters and walls, before splitting them into three different categories: those with Roman slang, the ubiquitous ones that advertise “Serrande” (shutters) and “Traslochi” (relocations) and those of football fans. The metallic map, inspired by the Guide psychogéographique de Paris published by Guy Debord in 1957, represents his imaginary drift through the city, free from all the limits that current geolocation apps – like Google Maps or Waze – impose on our urban journeys. Riding a scooter, or walking, he filled his trousers with stickers taken around the city, that he then transposed on the upside-down legs of the totems displayed in the exhibition. In Rome, Mathieu Tremblin also produced a series of stickers with the words “Rome was not burnt in a day”, to remember us that the future has always been born from the ashes of the past.