In this project I used Italian Western comics from the 1960s as an archive of mechanical gestures and encoded sounds. By scanning the original vintage issues, I isolated a single element: the sound-word that attempts to translate a gunshot into a graphic sign.
Extracted from their narrative context, these fragments no longer tell a story. Instead, they become a repetitive system, a grid of "shots" that questions a specific contemporary phenomenon: our desensitization to violence produced by continuous media exposure.
Repetition does not intensify the gesture, but empties it: the gunshot loses its exceptional nature and dramatic weight, conflict and death are reduced to minimal units of information, and "Bang" is no longer a sound, but evidence of how the seriality of images can turn violence into a pattern of forms, rhythm, and contrasts.