Le Grand Jeu
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ML7 — Underground Lisbon
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome scenes leave few traces, not because they were absent, but because they were never meant to be preserved. Beneath Lisbon, along the metro lines, a parallel history of graffiti unfolded over three decades, written in motion, erased, and rewritten again. ML7 brings together images from more than 60 contributors, many of them previously unpublished, […]
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CazinoLA — Grey Zones & Pursuit
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceA story that begins with a disappearance, a name, and a trace that refuses to fade. CazinoLA — La vie brute dans des draps de soie unfolds like a pursuit across cities and memories, where every detail becomes a clue and every image a fragment of a larger construction. Written by Ørland Von Traumer and […]
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West is the Best — Toward the Ocean
Galerie Kann Design 30 rue des Trois Bornes, Paris, FranceBooks sometimes become maps, tracing not only places, but ways of living and creating. West is the Best follows this idea through a decade of travels along the coasts of California, Mexico, and France, where the ocean becomes both landscape and point of connection. Published by Room Number Editions, the book brings together encounters with […]
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Affichage Libre — Beneath the Walls
Walls are constantly speaking, layered with advertisements, announcements, fragments, and disappearances. With Affichage Libre, Joachim Romain transforms these urban surfaces into a field of experimentation, revealing unexpected forms hidden beneath the city’s visual noise. Working directly on posters found in public space, the artist tears, peels, and reshapes paper into temporary sculptural compositions. Photographed before […]
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NOT FAR FROM HERE — Mapping Skate Culture
In skateboarding, cities are never fixed surfaces. They are constantly rewritten through movement, repetition, and shared use. What emerges is an evolving map made of gestures, routes, and collective memory. For more than ten years, photographer and filmmaker Enrico Cerovac has followed this invisible geography across cities around the world. Shot on 35mm film between […]
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Through the Lens of Hip-Hop: Maï Lucas Signing Session
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome photographic archives do more than document a scene—they enter it while it is still being formed. All Eyes On Me by Maï Lucas traces New York between 1990 and 2010, capturing a moment when hip-hop culture was still local, embodied, and self-defined. From Harlem to the Bronx, her images follow a generation reshaping identity, […]
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When T-Shirts Become Archives
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome archives are not built at once, but slowly assembled through years of looking, collecting, and remembering. Before culture became fully digitised, memory often lived in magazines, photographs, mixtapes and personal objects — fragments that carried entire worlds within them. Journalist, editor and curator Eglée de Bure opens her personal archive in Roots Picnic Music […]
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The City in Motion: Paris Ride Out
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBeyond its monuments and boulevards, Paris is also a city of riders, gathering spots and improvised routes. TARSTREETSPORTS: Paris Ride Out captures one of those moments when movement becomes a way of inhabiting the city. Set in a hidden Paris location, the zine documents an evening where riders, DJs and spectators came together, transforming an […]
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When Letters Meet – Skript Letter Jam #4
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn a moment when graphic cultures increasingly overlap without fully meeting, Skript Letter Jam #4 explores what happens when the culture of the letter becomes a shared space rather than a separate practice. Typography, calligraphy, graffiti and letter painting are brought together not as a comparison, but as a live encounter between gestures, rhythms and […]
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Cut, Drawn, Printed — Flask × catcentcat
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceLe Grand Jeu hosts the launch of a collaboration between two Parisian practices that meet on cloth: the drawing of writer Flask — shaped by the most radical years of graffiti, from the metros to the tunnels — and the eye and press of catcentcat, analog photographer seen in the docuseries With One Eye Open […]
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Tilt – Never Ending Story: Throw-ups, Traces & Erasure
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceDuring 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 […]
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French Rap Tees — The Wardrobe of a Culture
Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris 19 211 avenue Jean Jaurès — 75019 Paris — Porte de Pantin, Paris, Île-de-France, FranceBefore it hangs in a frame, a scene lives on cotton. Long before French rap reached the museum, it moved through the streets on the backs of those who built it — concert tees, promo shirts, bootlegs, worn until they became documents in their own right. French Rap Tees, the book by Driss Dendoune produced […]