Kashink
Untitled
2017
Acrylic and aerosol on paper, mounted on canvas
100.2 × 81.3 cm
Unique
Location: Montreuil, France
Arianee token ID
33607198
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About the artwork
The figure, which could be identified as non-binary, neither male nor female, reflects a strong emotional dimension. Adorned with KASHINK's emblematic moustache, the multi-eyed figure seems jostled between joy, fear, sadness and discontent, feelings reinforced by his facial features.
Expert opinion
In this work, we find the artist's characteristic universe, offering the viewer a straight line towards her artistic reflections and the emotions she feels intimately.
About the artist
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).
“I want to show something other than the beautiful, slim bodies, smooth faces or photoshopped women you see in advertising. It's not representative enough of our society, we don't see enough faces with scars, round waists or even people with disabilities.”
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Signed
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Framed
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