Lives and works in Montréal
Survival of the Fittest, Graffiti, 2012
Based on the original artwork Rat Stencil by Banksy, 2002
Survival of the Fittest is a far more personal artwork than it may look at first sight. The artist, being very faithful to Banksy’s style, voluntarily confuses the audience about the authorship of the work. Yet the work itself is highly symbolical, and hints at the artist’ own past experience and turning point in his life, when he precisely decided to turn from stop motion to contemporary art. Banksy’s rat thus stands for the artist himself, feeding itself from cartoons in order to survive and follow his path.