Kashink

Born in 1981 in the south of France, Maëva Martinez aka KASHINK is a graffiti artist, street artist and musician. She wears a drawn moustache on a daily basis to shake up gender codes, as a daily performance, and an activist sociological experiment, creating a social bond around profound questions such as normativity or freedom. Moustache she uses in her artistic practice, adorning her unreal characters. She reuses literary, artistic and musical references such as Stendhal, Ingres and his grand odalisque, or Cyndi Lauper's "Girl just wanna have fun", and interprets them with her own colorful universe to convey a message of freedom. The artist's frescoes are displayed on walls all over the world, and were the subject of an exhibition at the immersive Grand Palais in 2024 (Paris).