What happens when digital images begin to inhabit the physical world?

Working between digital culture, contemporary mosaic and public space, PixelArt explores how images persist through continuous reconstruction and reinterpretation.

Pixels become material systems, architecture becomes image, and visual memory acquires new forms of permanence beyond the screen.

IMAGE PERSISTENCE THROUGH MATERIAL RECONSTRUCTION

SPATIAL OPERATIONS

[PUBLIC SPACE]

Public-space interventions where digital imagery becomes architecture, territory and collective memory.

Urban space becomes the primary field where images migrate from digital culture into collective experience.

The archive includes mosaics, stencil systems, unauthorized installations and distributed image structures developed across streets, walls and architectural surfaces.

pixelart streetartist paris The archive includes permanent mosaics, ephemeral street actions, fragmented stencil systems and process documentation developed across multiple urban contexts.

Developed over more than a decade, these interventions investigate how cultural icons, technological memory and pixel-based systems become embedded within the urban landscape.

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VISUAL SYSTEMS

[ARTWORKS]

Material structures translating digital logic into physical image systems.

The works investigate how digital information can acquire material permanence through repetition, accumulation and pixel-based construction.

Operating through mosaic systems, plotter drawings and modular construction methods, the works explore how complex images emerge from the accumulation of simple units.

Artwork artist PixelArt generative process

The archive includes mosaics, plotted drawings, experimental surfaces and process-based image systems developed across multiple physical formats.

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SELECTED CONTEXTS

[EXHIBITIONS & FEATURES]

Exhibitions, publications and cultural contexts connecting PixelArt’s practice to contemporary discussions on mosaic, urban intervention and digital image culture.

Exhibitions PixelArt Paris with Fabio Rieti

From urban interventions in Paris to international publications and collaborative exhibitions, these contexts document the expanding dialogue between PixelArt’s practice and contemporary visual culture.

Selected among the 80 most influential contemporary mosaic artists worldwide. Mosaïque Magazine described PixelArt as a worthy heir to Invader.

“PixelArt is the worthy heir of Invader.”

— Mosaïque Magazine, Special Edition featuring the 80 most influential contemporary mosaic artists, 2022.

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Selected among the 80 most influential contemporary mosaic artists worldwide.

Featured in Mosaïque Magazine (France).

Described as “the worthy heir of Invader”.

Recognition of both urban interventions and studio practice.

Mosaic Art Now (2015)
Early International Recognition

Published by Mosaic Art Now, one of the leading international platforms dedicated to contemporary mosaic practice, the interview examined the emergence of PixelArt’s early urban mosaic interventions in Santiago and the development of a visual language positioned between digital culture, street art and material image construction.

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HOMMAGE À FABIO RIETI

Developed in collaboration with French artist Fabio Rieti, the exhibition presented at Jour et Nuit Culture in Saint-Michel established a dialogue between two generations of mosaic-based urban image construction. Recognized for introducing mosaic interventions into Parisian public space during the 1960s, Rieti’s practice anticipated forms of pixelation decades before the emergence of digital culture and street art as contemporary categories.

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FRANCE 24 FEATURE

During the Paris exhibition with Fabio Rieti, France 24 documented PixelArt’s process while producing a mosaic tribute installed near Place Saint-Michel. The feature focused on the relationship between digital technology, handcrafted construction systems and contemporary urban imagery.

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RFI CULTURE FEATURE

Invited by Jordi Batallé to the cultural program El Invitado on RFI, PixelArt discussed the formative influence of Paris on his artistic development, the relationship between urban experience and image construction, and the conceptual foundations behind his collaboration with Fabio Rieti.

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PERCEPTUAL LABS

[RESEARCH FIELDS]

Experimental systems investigating perception, fragmentation and the material behavior of digital images.

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Developed as ongoing research projects, these systems explore how digital images can fragment, disappear, migrate and re-emerge through material processes, optical instability and spatial perception.

SYS-04 / Visibility systems and mediated desire

AUTOCENSORSHIP SYSTEMS

Using pixelation and mosaic structures as mechanisms of concealment, the series investigates voyeurism, censorship and mediated visibility through fragmented image systems oscillating between exposure and disappearance.

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SYS-05 / Fragmented stencil systems for urban image transfer

URBAN TRANSFER SYSTEMS

Developed through layered stencil fragmentation and aerosol-based reconstruction processes, the series explores how digital structures can be transferred into urban surfaces through repetition, registration and mechanical reproduction.

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SYS-06 / Light-activated pixel structures and optical presence

LATENT IMAGES

Constructed through thousands of precision incisions on paper surfaces, the series transforms each pixel into a physical shadow structure activated by light, viewing angle and spatial perception.

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NETWORKED IMAGERY

[NETWORKED IMAGERY]

Post-digital image systems exploring circulation, ownership and symbolic appropriation within blockchain-based visual culture.

Extending the investigation beyond physical space, these projects explore how images circulate, mutate and acquire value within decentralized digital networks.

Experimental collections examining how pixel-based imagery operates within emerging systems of digital ownership, circulation and cultural exchange.

Distributed image systems exploring permanence, scarcity and symbolic value beyond physical media.

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These projects extend the broader investigation into image persistence, examining how visual information survives, circulates and acquires meaning across technological networks.

Research
Archive

An editorial publication documenting the conceptual framework, selected works and research developed by PixelArt since 2012, examining how digital image systems migrate across technological and physical environments.

Research Archive No.01

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ARCHITECTURAL
INTEGRATION

An editorial publication documenting the integration of permanent image systems into contemporary architecture through site-specific projects, material research and construction methodology.

Architectural Integration

The pixel as occupation

PIXEL-BASED SYSTEMS INVESTIGATING IMAGE PERSISTENCE, SYMBOLIC INVOCATION AND THE MATERIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF MEMORY.