Cecile Ibáñez - Illustrator

Barcelona, Spain

Rat Salad takes the aesthetics of the new visual languages of protest and agitprop and composition that evolves from the situationist posters of the 70s to the anti-design derived from the punk ethos to create its own bootleg technique and lettering, from which it makes its own counterculture.

When we talk about her project, we have to relate the music shelves that have punk and metal from the 70s and 80s, and an imagination that reaches as far as the comics of fairies, goblins, and other fantastic beings that she personifies. Her work also aesthetically resembles motor magazines of recent decades, where the tattoo sessions of motorcyclist culture often stand out.

Rat Salad is the result of the aforementioned references, but above all her testimonial looks at the concentrations, meetings, and cultural events of her local area, where she is located by establishing direct links with other creative agents and seeking synchronicities with them.