Deconstructed murals by Vhils

Portuguese urban artist Alexandre Farto (aka Vhils) creates stunning murals from decomposing walls using chisels, drills and small explosives. Seeing the act of deconstruction as a creative process, his deconstructed portraits can be found in Shanghai, London, Bogota, Paris, Lisbon and Los Angeles to name a few. The artist says, “I believe that, as social animals, we are all composed and shaped by a variety of different influences which are layered onto us… This same environment can also be seen as being composed by a vast amount of layers which have shaped it into what it is today. I believe that by removing some of these layers and leaving other, deeper and therefore older, layers, we can expose some of the things which have been forgotten or discarded along the way. Some of these might be truly important or valuable, or even just interesting or whatever. These lost memories compose who we are today.” Via Inspiration Green

Festival Avant Garde Urbano, Tudela de Navarra, Spain