Posters

Posters play an important role in the Museum of Human Violence (MHV):

• to orient the visitor to the future;
• to add to the fiction that the MHV has many plans for future galleries,
• a device for analysing the different forms that violence takes.

The posters are a useful way for me to identify the main issues I want to highlight in the installation, and my goal is to choose one of the issues for development.

All of my posters start with a drawing, usually made with ink, that I draw with the installation in mind, or I repurpose a drawing made previously. For example the first three poster in the row below were made for the Learning Violence: Schooling gallery and all reference ponds because the focus for the gallery was on dissecting frogs. I also think about the colours I use with a view to using that colour palette in the installation generally. For example the strong blue, turquoise and hint of green in the ‘biocapitalism’ poster mimics those colours that I will highlight in the installation more generally.