Girl with balloon vs homeless, 2025

Miquaseo  

A major icon of contemporary street art, Banksy's has become a universally recognised image, symbolising hope, innocence and fragility.

With Girl with balloon vs homeless, this iconic artwork is reinterpreted as a mosaic composed entirely of scenes of poverty, hardship and life on the margins of society.

Each fragment reveals faces, bodies and situations that often go unseen, bearing witness to a harsh, everyday social reality. 

Assembled, these images of deprivation recreate the poetic silhouette of the original artwork, creating a striking contrast between the hope symbolised by the balloon and the abandonment of society's most vulnerable.

From a distance: the minimalist graphic power of an iconic image.
Up close: a direct confrontation with hardship and contemporary social reality.

Printed in high definition on 5 mm PMMA acrylic glass, the artwork offers exceptional depth, luminosity and colour intensity. Its transparent edges create an elegant floating effect.

Each fragment is selected, assembled and adjusted by the artist. Miquaseo's artworks are not generated by artificial intelligence: the computer is used solely as a tool to support an artistic process and a composition conceived entirely by the artist.

Created in Miquaseo's studio in Saint-Paul-de-Vence and printed in Italy, the artwork is delivered ready to hang, with an aluminium mounting system included. 

Each edition is numbered, bears a printed reproduction of the artist's signature and comes with an official certificate of authenticity.

A personalized dedication can be added to the certificate of authenticity upon request.