Tilt – Never Ending Story: Throw-ups, Traces & Erasure

During lockdown, Tilt — the Toulouse graffiti artist known worldwide for his work — set himself one rule: a throw-up a day. More than 700 appeared across his city, only to vanish soon after under layers of buff paint. Never Ending Story grew out of that obsessive, ephemeral practice — a deep dive into the aesthetics of appearance and disappearance, documenting two decades of gestures, traces, and erasures.

More than a photo book, Never Ending Story brings together Tilt’s hands-on experience, the analyses of researchers David Pontille and Evelyne Toussaint, and the perspective of a pioneer like Henry Chalfant — co-author of Subway Art, who describes Tilt’s throwies as plump, jolly beings that shake, rattle and roll, even on a concrete wall. With work and words from international legends — Moses, Taps, Nop2, Seen, Pemex, OsGemeos, Remio, Fish, Puls, Padre… — it stands as both a tribute to one of graffiti’s most essential practices and a reflection on repetition, memory, and the persistence of the trace.

Designed by Martin Clamens and printed offset by Escourbiac, the book runs to 472 pages with exposed-stitch binding — an object as much as a book.

Le Grand Jeu invites you to the launch of Never Ending Story in the presence of Tilt. An evening to meet the artist, leaf through the book, and talk throw-ups, erasure, and the never-ending cycle of the wall.

📖 Never Ending Story — Book Launch & Signing with Tilt
🗓 Friday, June 26th | 🕓 from 6PM
📍 Le Grand Jeu, 15 passage de Ménilmontant, Paris 11