The Psycho Wall

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T h e P s y c h o - W a l l

For the 13 Years of Symbiosis exhibition at B-Murals Gallery, we decided to lay out what ended up being called the “Psycho-Wall” to show the making-of behind the Symbiosis project. We pinned many prints with the original pieces from the artists used for each symbiosis, some of the original unedited photos, works in progress in Photoshop, pictures of me taking pictures, etc.

We called it “Psycho-Wall” because it looks like the walls full of newspaper clippings that are always found in the house of psycho-killers, and also because its creation required many hours of obsessive-compulsive selection and pinning of images.

It worked so well that we are going to repeat it at every single Symbiosis exhibition! I realized at the opening that many people understood the system used to create the portraits right away just by taking a look at the wall. It was like a graphical explanation that illustrates the project better than any description using words.

We set it up chronologically from left to right, from the first symbiosis ever created to the latest portraits. Here you have some pictures of the setting up, detail shots of the wall and the final result.