Homek

Homek, whose real name is Renaud Reine, is a French artist. His work is rooted in graffiti, a practice he has explored since his teenage years. Renaud Reine grew up in a family where people drew. In the early 2000s, while training in cabinetmaking and woodcarving, he began travelling around France and neighbouring countries to put up his graffiti name.

Since 2012, Homek has crossed Europe's borders to paint in the street and in schools in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, most often with children. Every year he runs a workshop at a care centre near Marrakech. In 2014, he took part in "Graffic World" on the island of Gorée, in Senegal, and in 2018 in "Salam", at the Mohammed VI Foundation in Tetouan.

In galleries, Homek had solo exhibitions at Galerie La Bohème in Deauville in 2017, at Outsiders in Rouen in 2018, and in Lyon in 2020 with "Vibration orientale". Casart Urban Gallery in Casablanca showed his work in 2020 and 2021.

After painting many walls, Homek has moved his writing towards a more abstract language, in which letters break apart to make way for dynamic compositions. He treats the letter architecturally, in strong strokes and repeated patterns. Tears run through most of his canvases and separate the scenes of a single story.