
Dominatio Terrae
2022
'Dominatio Terrae,' Latin for 'dominion over the earth,' is a commanding solo work by Shepard Fairey that distills his most urgent political and ecological concerns into a monumental four-part modular format executed in stencil, silkscreen, and collage on wood. The modular structure itself is significant — it allows the work to be reconfigured and recontextualized, echoing Fairey's belief in art as a mutable, democratic tool rather than a fixed commodity. His signature layered technique, combining stencil precision with silkscreen's graphic flatness and the textural depth of collage, produces an image of striking visual authority that demands both distance and close inspection. The title carries a sobering ambiguity: it can read as a statement of human hubris over nature or as a call to responsibility toward the planet. Rooted in the OBEY movement's tradition of using the visual language of power against itself, this work is among Fairey's most philosophically ambitious.
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- Mixed media (stencil, silkscreen and collage) on wood (four parts modular)
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