The Palais de Tokyo questions the history and legacy of May 1968 with a monumental intervention on his building by the artist Escif, on which it will notably reproduce the famous writings of the student revolts of May 68. This project adds to the one made in May 2016 by the Greek painter Stelios Faitakis who questioned, through two murals, the legacy of the situationist thought and May 68 in contemporary revolts.

These interventions are in the context of the LASCO Project, Urban Arts / Urban Art program of the Palais de Tokyo, which is deployed in its building with the interventions of some sixty international artists.

"I'm looking for the limit, how to paint a mural that is not a mural (...) The wall is a limit, a tool of power with which we plan, control and manipulate the space of cities. Graffiti abuses of walls by ridiculing them, by transgressing their original function. A painted wall is then no longer a limit but a transversal channel ". Escif

On the back wall of the Palais de Tokyo, Escif will deploy a monumental painting and move the elements that make it up (official flags, doors, fire escapes, wild vegetation) while lacerating the walls of writing (the graffiti drawn clandestinely in the toilets of the institution and archived by the artist, the writings that accompanied the student revolts of May 68).