Images of the Popular
Iconography, identity, and cultural critique
This series examines the symbols, characters, and visual narratives that circulate massively through urban spaces, media, and popular culture. From a critical perspective, the works gathered here review how collective imagery shapes and reproduces certain forms of identity, belonging, and symbolic power.
Through appropriation, intervention, and transformation, these images reconfigure popular icons in order to question their function, deactivate stereotypes, and open new fields of meaning around the popular as a cultural, political, and aesthetic construction.
