Walls With Memory by Pedro Saavedra

Walls With Memory are the vestiges of a society that still resists the digital. It is a last breath before disappearing between 0's and 1's, nodes and IP's in a country that is presumed to be one of the oldest on the planet.

Adobe, sketches, striations, erosion... are combined with paper, typographies, colors, shapes and faces that look at us from the past. They are traces of Persian "advertising" that stopped communicating long ago to become visual poetry. It is the triumph of art over design and propaganda; the rhetorical message over the semantic one. A surrealist sketch that longs to tell us something through pictorial whispers.

This plastic and visual collection are photographs taken on the walls of the ancient city of Yazd, one of the oldest and most historically important cities in Iran. A particularity of the photos is that they were taken on the tenth day of the month of Muharram, Ashura.

"Words create holed spaces, craters, voids. This is the poem" - José Ángel Valente, El silencio y la escucha.

Collectors of at least one edition of each piece in the collection can request a print of their choice by contacting the artist directly on Twitter. The print comes in a 30x40, 170grs, 100% cellulose art paper with a smooth and soft surface for high resolution. Aging-resistant. Printed with 100% ecological latex-based inks certified by HP.