Street Art Toys

Like a modern-day Greek statue, Onemizer reproduces the full-length portrait of an unidentifiable creature. Its dark gray body is covered in graffiti. While the viewer can read "Old School", "Love" or "Free", the majority of the inscriptions are tags, the pseudonyms of graffiti artists. The artist takes up the codes of street-art and comics with this individual with oversized feet straight out of a fantastic imagination. The projections of black paint that surround him, the white monochrome background and the cast shadow challenge the flatness of the canvas, fooling the viewer. Street Art Toys here refers to a well-known and despised practice in this world: toying. Indeed, the artist seems to be denouncing what can be defined as the act of tagging on an existing structure out of a spirit of revenge or lack of space, describing the "culprit's" lack of experience.