Société Réaliste is an artists' cooperative founded in 2004 by Ferenc Gróf (1972) and Jean-Baptiste Naudy (1982). Central to their activities is the exploration, subversion and deconstruction of the specific devices of visual communication that have been developed and employed by institutions, governments and rulers, i.e., the representatives of power – in the fields of religion, politics, culture, art and finance – so as to position themselves. By exploring the representative and aesthetic roles of these agencies – including signs, logos, maps, symbols, typefaces, landmarks, emblems, statues or even buildings – in complex contexts of much broader time and space, the artists place them in a new light in the form of a “political cabinet of curiosities”, a critical, narrative implementation of design.
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Commonscript
Montage of 48 images, melting emptied videograms from The Fountainhead, showing stereotypical and almost abstracted modernist architectural views from New York, with inscriptions, extracted from the original script of the 1949 film.
Greater Europe
A map of Europe where countries are figuring with the largest territories claimed by their irredentists. Európa.
The Fountainhead
Société Réaliste’s full-length movie The Fountainhead, is based on the 1949 eponymous capitalist propaganda film written by Ayn Rand, the archpriestess of American libertarianism and author of some of its strongest cultural myths.
