018
Acrylic, Graffiti on Paper
26x20in
France
KHEARTS is a painter from the urban world, whose work is rooted in observing the traces left by time, walls, and the city. Self-taught and driven by raw creative energy, he transforms the scars of public space into powerful abstract works.
His work explores a dialogue between urban art and contemporary abstraction, where gesture and matter become language. Through this link, KHEARTS questions the notion of identity and sign: does the name create the work, or does the work absorb the name?
Inspired by the origins of graffiti—repeatedly writing one's name until it disappears—he transforms the name into a pictorial material, a visual memory. The sign blends into the color, dissolves into the texture, allowing a visual poetry born from urban chaos to emerge.