giampaolo parrilla - Power People Myanmar

Power People Myanmar 2:

This series of works takes the form of a cartographic and geopolitical study of the visual language of contemporary protests, using the uprisings in Myanmar as the primary case study. The research investigates the subtle, and often ambiguous, boundary between the dramatic urgency of events and their immediate transformation into iconic devices.

In the current media context, the narrative of the conflict fragments and recomposes itself through a layered visual register: the raw violence of police repression coexists and intertwines with memes, coded messages, pop symbols, and original forms of performative protest.

The paintings adopt a zenithal perspective, a satellite view that distances itself and examines the territory, to then enrich themselves and denote themselves with diagrams and vector surveys, which trace the dynamics of flows and territorial control, fragments of text and digital messages, memory of online activism and the circulation of information, visual symbols, and iconographic codes that encode cultural resistance within the pictorial space.

Going beyond simple documentation, the work overlays and fuses these different narrative regimes, transforming the canvas into a complex map where the geography of power and the syntax of dissent clash and reorganize themselves.