A key figure in French street art, Tilt has always been deeply connected to the raw energy of traditional graffiti, rooted in the spontaneity of bubble lettering, tag layering, and overlapping layers of paint. Yet, beyond the urgency of lettering and signature-driven graffiti, his work questions how graffiti exists over time—covered, erased, transformed—it becomes a language of urban memory.
In Flashbacks, the focus shifts from names and urban statements to fragments of surfaces, reassembled and recomposed like abstract polaroids of a disappearing past. On monumental canvases as large as 290 x 580 cm, the artist creates compositions that resemble close-ups of textured walls, revealing traces of erased tags, scratches, overlapping paint, and human imprints. Through these works, Tilt recreates the very essence of the wall: a space of dialogue, layering, and lasting presence.
„ The heritage of graffiti is the essence of my anti-aesthetic approach.“
Tilt, 2017.
Some pieces in the exhibition, created on plasterboard, extend this reflection by incorporating raw surface fragments, where material itself becomes memory. These supports, born from a process of recovery and reassembly, remind us that graffiti is inherently ephemeral—destined for erasure, disappearance, or appropriation.
By playing with accumulation, fragmentation, and reconfiguration, Tilt’s work exists in a state of tension: between chaos and order, memory and erasure. Flashbacks captures the fleeting traces of urban graffiti, where every detail—a splash of color, a drip, a half-visible signature—becomes a window into a suspended history.
With this digital exhibition, Tilt invites us to immerse ourselves in a world where the boundary between street art and pictorial abstraction dissolves, leaving only the pure essence of gesture and visual memory.
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