Let and Sowat have secretly invited street artists to work with chalk and water on a blackboard at the Palais de Tokyo. The film – with its choppy editing and monochrome aesthetic – documents this experience while exploring the questions of relocating from the street to the institution, violence and destruction, and the fragility of a trace.

Graffiti artists Lek and Sowat work together as practitioners of Urbex: finding and taking over abandoned urban spaces that are steeped in history. In their large-scale frescoes, the typographical motifs traditionally used in graffiti art are pushed towards a form of architectural abstraction.
Associated Artists: Philippe Baudelocque, Wxyz, Alëxone, Smo, L’Outsider, Sowat, Babs, Skki, Jay one, Tcheko, Apôtre, Kan, Seb174, Sambre, Nassyo, Popay, Spé, Fléo, Lek, Dem189, Swiz and Jacques Villeglé (in order of appearance).

Art centers in the spotlight
Art centers are production and dissemination hubs of contemporary art, present across the entire country in both urban and rural areas. Invited by Chiara Parisi and Julie Pellegrin, curators of the Nuit Blanche 2013, these centers will present close to 60 films that they’ve produced over the last few years in several emblematic bars of the Rue Oberkampf and in the auditorium of the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin.

Rue Oberkampf – Paris 11th arrondissement
121, rue de Ménilmontant – Paris 20th arrondissement
Metro stations Parmentier / Ménilmontant / Gambetta