Where the City Points

Jan, 2026

In contemporary cities, direction is everywhere. These two posters invert the relationship between absolute and relative directions. In one poster, absolute directions surround the city, while arrow signs move across its surface. In the other, relative directions form the boundary, as the markers of east, south, west, and north saturate the image. Through this inversion, the city is revealed as a folded surface which shaped by technology, usage, and human action. Absolute directions offer a stable reference, while arrow signs, as products of technical systems, continuously intervene in how people act within public urban space. The city keeps pointing, and we live inside its directions.