Finger weg!

The artistic signature of Arzhel Prioul, alias Mardi Noir, is easily identifiable in Finger weg! The French street artist uses the symbolic language of pictograms, removing them from their usual, rational context, enlarging them to reveal their composition of individual colour pixels, and placing them in unusual locations. This is a piece with a humorous undertone that questions the legitimacy of authority and symbolic language per se. Mardi Noir’s works are spread across the entire ironworks site and thus require careful observation. One thing should be borne in mind, however: Finger weg! (Hands off!)

Christian Jene