Street artists on lockdown run riot in their homes

Britain’s anonymous Bansky has made his bathroom his blank canvas, something his wife is not too happy about.

French street art star JR covered the deserted Paris street outside a friend’s apartment with a trompe-l’oeil image of a person peeking through blinds for the cover of this week’s Time magazine. “For me the piece is about isolation and fear and when your external environment becomes the thing that threatens your existence,” said Colla, who prefers to base himself in France but is currently stuck in California.

His collage of a blindfolded girl hunkered down holding her knees now appears on his Instagram feed with the caption “Confinement”. “I have many things to put up because I’ve kept on creating this whole time,” he said, showing the paintings he has composed of characters behind bars or even a “man-virus”.A larger-than-life collage in the Marais district entitled “Senor cuervo senora peste” — now partially destroyed — features a character dressed as a doctor during the Black Death. It was the last thing he put up before confinement was imposed.

And the art world itself is going virtual with digital exhibitions, including one featuring Eddie Colla.

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