Sunday 6 December, 14:00

La dernière

Geneva artists Serval and Kalonji present collaborative encounters that foreground graffiti and illustration practices. Through live drawing and painting sessions alongside existing works, they explore dialogue between image-making, public gesture and intimate mark-making.
The presentation blends performative creation, sketch-based processes and mutual exchange, revealing how street-oriented and illustrative languages converse to question authorship, audience interaction and the boundaries between finished work and process.

Rue Charles-GALLAND 2,
1206 Genève
Photo Credit: DR
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Photo Credit: DR

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