Paris Free Walls

Paris Free Walls connected international mural artists with public walls across Paris, supported by local communities and municipal partners. The initiative treated the city as a network of distinct sites, each offering a different architectural and social context for a commission.

The programme brought individual artistic languages into the streets rather than applying a uniform decorative approach. A mural’s scale, position and relationship to neighbouring buildings helped determine how it was encountered, making the surroundings part of the work.

SAN Projects’ involvement connected artists with this locally rooted programme. The project extends the agency’s work across international cities, where the lasting value of a public commission depends on the relationship between the artist, the place and the people who use it.