Fruit Bombing, 2025
Escif
mural, street art
This intervention consists of painting different fruits on tagged urban surfaces throughout the city. These painted fruits would appear unexpectedly on walls, shutters, or other previously marked areas. The aim is to create a soft, visual disruption in overlooked corners of public space.
In addition, I am exploring a second layer to the project using subverted fruit stickers. These would feature the names of major international military corporations, styled to resemble common fruit label designs. They could appear on the painted fruits, as standalone stickers in public areas, or possibly on real fruit that would be placed throughout the city in various corners.
The project is still evolving, and I would be glad to discuss the direction with the curators. The format may take different shapes — painted images, printed stickers, or physical objects — depending on the final approach. What stays consistent is the idea of playfully disrupting everyday language and symbols using something as ordinary and accessible as fruit.
Location: Tagged urban surfaces across the city. Specific locations to be determined based on feasibility and site access.
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About the Artist
Mural painter active in the street art scene since the late 1990s. His work re-signifies urban space under the belief that life is always more interesting than art. With sharp lines and muted colors, his paintings explore contemporary struggles, resistance movements, capitalism’s challenges, and ecological crises. Often minimal, his interventions subtly disrupt reality to reveal the beauty in the everyday.
Based in Valencia, his hometown, he has also developed numerous international projects in urban contexts around the world, always in direct dialogue with local realities.
Recent highlights include exhibitions at Saatchi Gallery (London, 2023), Perrotin Shanghai (2023), Power Station Museum (Shanghai, 2016), IVAM (Valencia, 2017), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2018), and CCCC (Valencia, 2020); as well as participation in the Biennale of Contemporary African Art (Dakar, 2014), OFF Manifesta X (St. Petersburg, 2014), Dismaland by Banksy (UK, 2015), and the Lyon Biennale (2019).
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