Lost Invader
- Lasveguix
Description
This work of Lasveguix embraces a raw urban aesthetic, somewhere between collage, repurposing, and graffiti. The background is made up of successive layers of torn-off posters, typographic fragments, and advertising images reminiscent of the city's saturated walls, bearers of overlapping visual memories.
In the center, a black and white visual takes up the iconography of the famous video game Space Invaders , accompanied by the word "LOST", reinforcing the idea of disappearance or wandering in the urban visual chaos. Above, a graffiti in thick and spontaneous black letters announces "INVADER WAS HERE", a direct nod to the street artist Invader and his practice of marking territory with his mosaics.
A blue halo in the background highlights the inscription, as if to give it a particular aura, while the torn colors and textures of the posters contribute to the palimpsest effect.
The work questions traces, memory, and ephemerality in public spaces: what is glued, covered, scratched, and then reappropriated. It creates tension between popular culture (video games, street art) and the poetic decomposition of city walls.
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- Work on stretcher : Yes
€1.400,00