As his moniker suggests, the French street artist Seth Globepainter is traveling the world and using the streets as his canvas. Wherever he works, he incorporates local symbols and subjects from the surroundings, sending a message that is often playful and political at the same time.
This year, the artist has spent two months in the lanes of old Shanghai, as part of his residency at MoCA. Profoundly exploring the local culture, he used the streets and alleyways of one of the last old working-class neighborhoods as an urban artistic playground. Over twenty paintings created in the alleys of the neighborhood evoke the time when children played in the streets and the public space was a place of life and sociability.
