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This installation features a series of posters that juxtapose conflicting messages — one optimistic or idealistic message superimposed with a more provocative, pragmatic thought. I invite the audience to engage with the content through colored transparencies, exploring themes such as war and friendship (Adolf Hitler + Abraham Lincoln), martyrdom (Julius Caesar + Mahatma Gandhi), and respect (Nicki Minaj + Confucius).


decode installation

BFA Exhibition


Decode Posters 1-2

“If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”
—J. Depp

"The worst mistake you can make is walking away from the person who actually stood there and waited for you."
—Drake


"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
—Confucius

"You gotta be a beast. That's the only way they'll respect you."
—N. Minaj

Decode Posters 3-4

"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."
—J. Caesar

"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
—M. Gandhi


"Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless."
—A. Hitler

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
—A. Lincoln


Decode Posters 5-6

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
—A. Lincoln

"More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather."
—J. E. Jones

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
—M. Twain

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you."
—Buddha


Decode Posters 7-8

"A real relationship has fights, trust, faith, tears, pain, arguments, patience, secrets, jealousy and love!"
—A. Jolie

"Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won't cry, lips that won't lie, and love that won't die."
—W. Khalifa

"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
—J. Stalin

"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets."
—A. Lincoln