With his unmistakable style and his iconic “Gouzous” characters, French artist Jace transforms the façade of the INPS building in Padua into a vast visual narrative that unfolds, panel by panel, across the entire arc of human existence.

The mural is composed of seven stacked frames, each marking a fundamental stage of life: birth, love, growth, education, work, retirement, old age, and finally the last moment, imagined as a gentle flight into the unknown. At the top, two winged figures open the story with a suspended, poetic scene, symbolising a luminous and mysterious origin.

The sequence continues with the building of a family, the education of a child, the celebration of friendship and personal achievements. The protagonist enters the world of work, faces daily responsibilities, and ultimately reaches the time of retirement, represented as a return to lightness and sharing. In the closing scene, now elderly, he lives surrounded by affection and care, until the final farewell: a return to wings, to dreams, to the possibility of a new form of existence.

With this mural, Jace tackles for the first time a work of strong biographical and sequential content, inspired by the very context of the building – a place dedicated to work, social security, and welfare – and pays tribute, with his subtle irony, to the dignity of life in all its stages.

The work is profoundly connected to the theme of the 2025 Biennale, The Dream. For Jace, dreaming is not escapism, but vision: the vision of a life lived fully, built with love, marked by falls and achievements, and concluded with the hope of a new horizon.

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