The city of Loan in Northern France has wrapped up its first street art festival, Festival d’art Urbain de Laon, in 2022. Organised by Ville de Laon and curated by Christian Guemy (aka artist C215), the city invited sixteen international street artists to paint fourteen monumental murals in the Champagne and Montreuil districts of the medieval town. Among the artists invited was Jaune.
A stencil artist and urban interventionist based in Brussels, JAUNE enjoys subverting public spaces with humour and subtlety. Inspired by his experience as a sanitation worker, he depicts small characters in fluorescent vests, who are often ignored despite their striking visibility. This play on contrasts between the visible and the invisible gives rise to compositions full of irony and lightness, where workers in the shadows become the protagonists of absurd and poetic scenes. Since 2011, his work has engaged in a dialogue with urbanism, challenging passers-by and giving a voice back to the city's discreet figures.
Pictures by Rian Nijssen ( @riannijssen ).