The police break, the police wound, the police kill. They constrain and impose to satisfy a state that claims to be close to the people. The gap between law enforcement and social order keeps growing. Instead of responding to this violence with force (a solution that, unfortunately, all too often seems necessary just to be heard), we have offered a space to a myriad of artists and craftspeople. A space for expression centered on the police, which, like the cops, restricts the field of possibilities. Each time, the rule is simple: each person has two pages, one made up of text, the other of images or illustrations. But rather than simply restricting through a theme, we wanted to show how easily the rules can be bent. To disobey, not by breaking the law, but by bending it just a little. The word “police” then becomes a play on words: a smooth skin (peau lisse), Paul Ice, and other phonetic distortions (pots lisses)... With contributions from graphic designers, screen printers, illustrators, tattoo artists, students, assistants, and teachers.
Edited & Printed by SNAK
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