“As soon as we analyse the territoriality of walls, we realise that not only are walls boundaries between territories, but are themselves territories. To people, they are meaningful, not only for what they separate or hide, but also in themselves.”
Brighenti, 2009, p. 65 from The Wall & The City
“I understand public imagery in this sense as part of these arenas
where power, aspirations, and desires are played out. Its uptake traverses
the publics they are intended for. Occasionally they replace each other but
mostly they are different visual strategies competing on Tamil Nadu's walls.
And what’s more, the lives of the billboards, murals, and posters are of an
ephemeral quality, at least in the public display they are intended for. Yet
they compose the city spaces that they are exhibited in. In this way, the
permissibility of the images depends on the places where and times at which
they are displayed. They exhibit claims to space and the city that attend
to different audiences.”
Gerritsen, 2019, p. 48 from Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India
