Visitor stickers

Visitor stickers cover a street pole outside MUCEM, the Museum of Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean in Marseille.

On the bottom left side of this traffic sign, stickers with the E+E logo of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital also mark the presence of visitors.

These photos were taken years and hemispheres apart and they show the same tendency. These marks are not personal like a tag would be, or a wall carving made by hand. They don’t promote a deliberate aesthetic or a political message, yet they end up creating a semiotic atmosphere which results from the simple action of leaving a mark, however generic it may be (all these stickers are the same). Repeated occupations of public surfaces create interesting territories even with the most basic means.