Graffiti of love

Title: Graffiti of Love

Artist: FAIR FAB
Medium: Digital collage, photographic layering, typographic overlay
Year: 2012

Description:
Graffiti of Love is an explosive fusion of human intimacy and urban chaos, where layers of affection and rebellion compete across a wall of emotional residue. The word “LOVE” appears boldly across the canvas—fragmented and semi-obscured—yet unmissable. Behind and within its letters, multiple faces kiss and merge into one another, their skin tones burning in fiery reds and electric blues. It’s unclear where one face ends and another begins, suggesting not just physical closeness but emotional entanglement.

The background resembles a wall of graffiti—names, messages, tags, and spontaneous declarations of feeling all superimposed like a collective scream into the void. This chaotic tapestry becomes a symbolic city wall of desire, rebellion, and memory. Love is not clean or static here; it’s messy, public, and constantly overwritten.

Curator’s Note:

“In Graffiti of Love, FAIR FAB invites us to see love not as a singular narrative but as a palimpsest—a wall written on by many hands. This piece captures the overwhelming saturation of passion in urban life: how every kiss is layered over history, how public displays of affection become quiet acts of resistance. The fusion of figures and fonts, mouths and messages, evokes the visual noise of city life and the emotional noise of being in love. It is a mural of longing, defacement, and devotion.”

This work continues FAIR FAB’s exploration of love as territory—claimed, defaced, rewritten—and how intimacy plays out against cultural, political, and visual backdrops.