'Parasitical style'

Third Floor / Wall/ Aerosols / 2006

“This façade was still in a totally virgin state when we got to work on it. I call this arrow-based style the “parasitical style”, because the arrows are not frozen into one direction – rather, they lead the eye in all kinds of different directions. What I wanted to do was have them running across all the reliefs and all the media, so that they wouldn’t be static. I wanted them to be moving all over the place. Unlike the paintings I did on other gangways, which nowadays I really don’t think are anything to write home about, that was when I grasped the fact that this style only worked when I based it on arrows rather than other motifs.”

Lek

Lek first started working in graffiti at the end of the 80s. An innovator and pioneer in the discipline known as urbex, which involves seeking out suitable abandoned locations, he developed an abstract, architectural aesthetic that soon won him the recognition of his peers. 2010 saw him dedicating over a year to his most ambitious project, Le Mausolée – an unauthorised artistic residency in an abandoned supermarket in North Paris. He went on to co-organise the first-ever collective graffiti exhibition in the Palais de Tokyo, while also participating in countless other projects such as the Tour Paris 13. Lek was one of the first graffiti artists to work in the buildings in Pantin.

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