Inès C.

A visual artist trained at the Beaux-Arts de Saint-Gilles in Brussels, where she lived for ten years, Inès C. develops a body of work centered around graffiti. This crude gesture appeals to her because of its ambivalent status: perceived as an act of vandalism, it is nevertheless omnipresent in urban spaces.

She wanted to bring these street-born traits back inside the walls, to make them exist differently and invite a different perspective. By zooming in on a tag, this quick and instinctive gesture, she reveals its energy, its tension, and a pop dimension, less strictly graphic.

She chooses to paint on three-dimensional canvases, 3D canvases, to offer complete freedom to the line and create an effect of infinity—as if a fragment of wall had been removed. Her work questions the place of graffiti in art, reminding us that painting on walls is an ancestral, universal, and profoundly human gesture.