Street Artist Creates Superb Urban‑surreal Murals With Nature, Ruins and Machinery Tangled Together in Poetic, Dreamlike Scenes

Maye (Victorien Liria) is a French painter and street artist from Sète known for tall, elastic characters and highly detailed surreal scenes that stretch between mural and canvas work.

A self‑taught graffiti artist who started painting walls as a teenager, he now moves fluidly between street interventions and studio paintings where dreamlike figures, animals and machines interact in poetic, slightly melancholic narratives about nature, technology and the fragility of the human–environment relationship. His murals and canvases often feature elongated limbs, floating objects, and lush yet crumbling landscapes, creating an “urban surrealism” that feels both playful and quietly critical.

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