Fleurs the signs state simply. Flowers. We think of shop signs in the streets of Paris, Lyon or Marseille. We might extend our visual memory towards half remembered pictures of dusty roads in Brazzaville, Dakar or Quebéc. The work by artist Andréa Spartà (*1996) immediately creates an internal map of recollectionsand moments; the instances we gave and received flowers, when and where we bought them, hospital visits and the birth of children, anniversaries and apologies come to mind, memento mori of our past, speaking to a shrinking future.

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Extract from the text of the exhibition Sound of Signs, at Annex 14 Gallery, June 2024, written by Damian Christinger