Irelundi prima della Tempesta Irelundi before the Storm

2025

Commissioned by Sprint Milano

Digital manipulation and internet appropriation
Paper billboard 600x300cm



Irelundi is a speculative neologism envisioning the voluntary extinction of human verbal language, both spoken and written.
It represents a dystopian communicative collapse where speaking or writing causes more harm than understanding. A self-reflective word, Irelundi hypothetically decrees its own end.
This artwork calls into question semiotics and the visual collapse given by an excess of images.





ci dobbiamo dire la verità,
le internet aesthetics sono necrotizzate indisturbata, si svolge una catastrofe comunicativa
ci affezioniamo e stufiamo velocemente a slops, rots e cores.
mi chiedo come non sia mai messa in discussione
l>appiattente, egemone, lingua franca di merda su internet,
l>inglese si merita di essere parlato male.
l>unica luce che mi restituisce immaginazione e vita
é la Resistenza Armata Palestinese  المجد للمقاومة الفلسطينية (Gloria alla resistenza palestinese)
Tutto il resto, proprio come quello che compone questa
grottesca folla sovraeccitante e megalomane, è solo rumore bianco che popola il vuoto mentre il collasso semiotico avanza



We have to tell each other the truth:
Internet aesthetics are necrotized without interference; a communicative catastrophe unfolds.
We quickly get attached to—and bored of—slops, rots, and cores.
I wonder how it has never been questioned:
the flattening, hegemonic, shitty lingua franca of the internet,
English deserves to be spoken badly.
The only light that gives me imagination and life
is the Palestinian Armed Resistance المجد للمقاومة الفلسطينية (Glory to the Palestinian resistance).
Everything else, just like what makes up this
grotesque, overexcited, megalomaniac crowd,
is just white noise filling the void while semiotic collapse advances.


Ph Riccardo Giancola & Tiziano Ercoli



Special thanks to SPRINT / artist–led project supported by the non–profit associations O’ and GALATTICA @galattica.20131and to The Models Resource.
Given the declared appliance of appropriation of online material this artwork is not intended for any commercial-use.


Credits of 3D sprites’ artists (in progress)  :
Fire flower by dogtoon64, Cloud flower by peardian, Banana flower peardian, Red flower by senjen,
Aladdin (Prince) by aldernAladdin carpet by Centrixe the Dodo,  Yasmine (lilac) by Centrixe The Dodo, Yasmine (aquamarine) by roxas358, Abu by roxas358
Aladdin by roxas358, Waluigi’s Rose by mremerald2006



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