Walls Remember
In this exclusive GATA editorial, concepts of memory, space and contemporary anxiety are explored within a post-capitalist landscape. A surrealist visual protest, pushing back at the systems of control that seek to keep us locked in a mental cage.
We find ourselves in between the past and the future. Caged in walls that used to be occupied by big corporations, we levitate between ‘now’ and ‘then’. Absurd and purposeless, we try to find meaning in the places we are put in.
Just as in real life, we are stuck between the ambitions of world leaders, often misled by misinformation and fake news—the feeling of uncertainty, manipulation, and awaiting inspired us to make this editorial.
The title ‘walls remember’ refers to the Russian proverb meaning that places have memory. The office can be abandoned, re-constructed, or even demolished, but the place will always keep the memory of the past, as long as the walls remain.
