MAMCO retrospective brought together the main series that the artist has produced, namely: the Black Stars Press, which involves superimposing screen-printed images similar to those used by Warhol and layers of chocolate; the "Rorschach," fragmented mirrors alluding to the Swiss psychiatrist’s famous test; the "Brick Paintings," mixing patterns of bricks and information from printed media; and some of his more recent probes into the shift from image to object, as well as several new works.

Using collage, borrowings, displacement, and juxtaposition, Kelley Walker observes how images are diffused in the media and explores their irreductable matériality. Whether dealing with melted chocolate, a shattered windscreen, stickers or printed matter, Kelley Walker’s work underlines our urban, anonymous gestures (be they collective or regressive) which are all always acts of insubordination to the messages imposed by the media.