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With routes in the graffiti area, Escif develops a personal discourse, reflecting from the margins of this discipline. His language navigates between the critical and the poetic, and takes form within the paintings and drawings that appear on the walls of Valencia city, where he currently resides. His unmistakable work and style bought him appearances in various international publications, such as the recently released “Beyond the Street. 100 leading figures on Urbanart“.

After traveling the world with urban interventions and expositions in galleries such as Luis Adelantado (Valencia and Miami), Carmichael Gallery (Los Angeles), and POW (London), Escif now presents an exposition in Montana Gallery Barcelona which draws from a visceral position on the walls, as well as his usage as a tool the power with which he designs, controls, and manipulates the space in the cities.

Contra la Pared (Against the Wall) insists on the necessity to open doors, construct paths, create freely accessible spaces, and invent bridges and relations, both formal and conceptual; and pull down the walls of the city, but above all those that limit the interiors of our own minds, our dreams, and our illusions. Let’s lead with intuition and improvisation, escape logic and lineal reasoning, break established order so as to create new order, question the absolutes and surprise ourselves with the magic of error. Let’s face up to contradictions like transit spaces, validate the process with the result, and banish the arrogance of conclusions and coordinates.