Sally Boyle Studio

SALLY BOYLE | ARTIST

Beneath the surface glamour of Paris, the Metro reveals other stories – told not in monument, but in layers of torn paper and time.

My work draws from the deconstructed posters found in the underground stations of the Paris Metro where advertisements, propaganda, and pop culture decay into accidental collage. These walls – ripped, weathered, uncurated – become democratic canvases. What begins as commercial noise erodes into visual poetry, each layer a ghost of something once urgent, now mostly forgotten, but still clamoring to be meaningful.

I am drawn to the tension between intention and erosion, between mass messaging and individual perception. These fragments – half a slogan, a model’s single eye, an exposed underlayer of pure color or plain brick– offer a raw, unfiltered archive of the city’s commercial past and its visual subconscious.

By documenting, reinterpreting, or even reconstructing these monuments, I highlight the beauty in breakdown. What we discard still speaks. In the Metro, decay isn’t disappearance – it’s dialog. And I am listening.

BOLD. VIBRANT. UNAPOLOGETICALLY ABSTRACT.