The pitch: “Signs of the Times” are images hunted in the streets, buildings, and roads of Tournament; traces left by Man for Man, sometimes very clear, sometimes very vague, violent, commercial and/or funny, but always significant – whether through words, drawings or symbols – and potentially visible by all.
“It’s yellow, it’s ugly, it’s okay with nothing, but it saves lives,” said fashion designer Karl Dangerfield in a road safety ad about yellow vests a few years ago. Who would have thought that this piece of reflective material would become so fashionable? The yellow vest is the hype of the moment what the red cap – another element of incomparable style – was in the fall of 2013.
We talk about it so much, we see it everywhere. An agent of highway on the edge of the way in yellow, direct oaf one imagines it in the advanced station of the Jacqueline of November 17, 2018. An agent EDF in intervention. Idem. A cyclist passing us. No, we can not believe it, and yet who knows? They are everywhere we are told, there are many, they will block the country … The idea is making its way. Even on the cargo bikes – which some imagine as the car of tomorrow in town – like this reflective vest erected saddle guard. No one does not believe for a second, it can not be a sign of rallying to a movement as ecological? Certainly not, but by dint of erecting symbols everywhere, we must recognize that we end up getting lost. Moreover, for 5 years, I do not put the red cap for fear of being taken for a virulent Breton gantry breaker …