China: DALeast & Faith47

In 2012, SAN Projects helped organise a street-art tour with DALeast and Faith47 across Wuhan, Beijing and Shanghai. The project brought two distinct visual languages into contact with the architecture and everyday spaces of three Chinese cities.

DALeast’s fractured, filament-like forms and Faith47’s figurative approach offered different ways of occupying a wall. Moving between cities made the surroundings integral to the work: a mural was developed for a particular surface and encountered within the life of that location.

The tour formed part of an early period of international collaboration for SAN Projects. It connected artist relationships with the practical organisation of work across several sites, and expanded the geographical reach of a practice built around making art visible in public space.