SNYDER, Fire It Up, 2019

Artwork shown in SNYDER’s first solo show ‚Lokomotion‘

In Lokomotion, SNYDER presents works that developed dispartely from typical graffiti but are nevertheless closely related. The artist is literally engaged with the meaning of mobility. He does so by showing paintings on railway signal panels from commuter and intercity train traffic. While the originator usually leaves a part of him/herself behind during the act of train writing, SNYDER flips this narrative upside down by showing objects that come from the world of rail traffic.

Furthermore, Lokomotion means to consistently reinvent oneself within the narrow cosmos of graffiti, without uprooting ones origins. 

The veil in which the creator has wrapped the shown train traffic signs is an adaptation from his figurative works. It resembles a light refracting from an oily reflection, or images captured by an infrared camera. Above all – it is the individual, colorful fingerprint with which SNYDER occupies the art works.