Lek, Sowat, Legz, and Roti collaborated together on this extensive insitu installation “Minotaur”. The installation was part of the massive “La Tour Paris 13” project curated and put together by Gallery Itinerrance. A Parisian building was painted by over 100 artists each leaving their mark with murals and installations. This series of photographs were shot by “Nicolas Gzeley” and document the “Minotaur” explanation. Sowat explains in his words below the concept behind the installation.

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“A year ago, Mehdi Ben Cheikh from Galerie Itinérance started inviting street artists from around the world to work in the empty flats of an abandoned building, in the south of Paris. Lek and I chose to work inside the tower’s basement. With its bad lighting, small corridors and dank atmosphere, the place looked so much like a maze that we decided to base our installation on Greek Mythology’s Minotaur.

First, we excavated various objects left in the basement by the building’s former tenants and covered them with white fluorescent paint before displaying them in key parts of the cellar. Secondly we asked Roti, a young and ultra talented Graffiti writer and sculptor, to build a plaster Minotaur that we placed at the center of the maze. Like a modern version of the golden thread, we then painted all pipes and hoses leading to the beast with fluorescent paint. Legz, one of the first French graffiti writer who left the streets to paint exclusively in abandoned places, then started painting his signature interlacing spaghetti’s all around the basement empty boxes. Finally, using only black light and fluorescent paint, we covered the rest of the basements with our own lines, shapes and abstract calligraphies”… Sowat
This basement and the rest of La tour paris13 will open on the 1st of October for a month and will be free to the public.

DISCOVER “LA TOUR PARIS 13”
A “GALLERY ITINERRANCE” PROJECT
100 STREET ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD REUNITED BY THE itinerrance gallery IN A PARISIAN BUILDING.
Free public entry, open from the First till the 31th of OCTOBER