Grimacing Mechanical Creature — artwork #2 by Semor · Nantes, France

Semor is a French urban artist based in Nantes, active since the early 2010s. His work is characterised by an extremely detailed drawing style built on accumulations of everyday objects and fragments, an approach that echoes the spirit of the Nouveau Réalisme movement. He primarily produces large-scale murals, often in black and white or featuring imaginative creatures woven into urban references.…

Ador is a French urban artist born in 1972 in Philadelphia, now based in Nantes where he has lived and worked for many years. Trained at the Beaux-Arts, he took up graffiti in 2003 and moved on to mural painting from 2005, starting on the walls of his own neighbourhood on the outskirts of Nantes. His work is populated by imaginary humanoid characters with long noses and large eyes, staged in what…