SAEIO

Born in 1987 in Paris.
Died in 2017.

Présentation

Graffiti is an ephemeral painting in an act where the painters use, writing, their own body, time and space in situ. The process, if analyzed, still contains non-manageable features which are mainly due to its illegal nature, allowing the unknown and unexpected to create events and interactions which in the end form an integral part of the work itself. Graffiti’s audience is the multitude of characters who while walking the streets have the possibility to encounter a painter working live or at least the trace he has left.

For SAEIO graffiti is a formal reality, a commitment to the world which designates a liberty. Free and authentic, its spontaneity and radical nature unties the established codes of the traditional graffiti culture to push its boundaries; within which a new approach to painting can be identified. His approach, though of as a “widened pictorial practice” abolishes the life/art boundary but also the boundaries between different artistic disciplines.
SAEIO has recently introduced his practice and approach to paintings to the public though institutional shows. The paradox of this transition from illegality to legality, from the street to the museums, from graffiti to the idea of graffiti, from the people to a public, from the collective to the individual, from the interaction to its potential loss, nourish him with new problematics and research approach which generate new artistic inventions.