Limited edition products featuring urban artist SUN 7's artwork soon available to purchase on campus

As part of the 13th edition of Pasteurdon which took place in October, the Institut Pasteur commissioned 13 urban artists and gave them carte blanche to customize one of the key items in any scientist's wardrobe: the inimitable lab coat. The creative efforts of these artists were showcased in a fashion parade, with several Institut Pasteur scientists taking to the catwalk, each sporting a unique graffitied lab coat.

This event has led to several ongoing partnerships between the Institut Pasteur and the artists involved, with the aim of blending science and urban art on items other than lab coats! The famous urban artist SUN 7, one of those involved in the Pasteurdon campaign, has added his artwork to two products: a tote bag and a mug.

These unique items will be on sale to the entire campus on Tuesday December 3, from 11am to 3pm, in the atrium of the François Jacob building.

Come along and check out the limited-edition products decorated by SUN 7 – and while you're there, why not take another look at the exhibition of graffitied lab coats and signs, installed especially for the occasion?

*Only cash payments will be accepted.

A short biography of SUN 7:

Jonas Bournat, better known by his pseudonym SUN 7, is a French urban artist who was born in 1977. In the early 1990s, he discovered the New York tagging culture. Armed with a spray can, he set out to add his own touch to the walls of Paris and New York. He became increasingly known for his live art performances, firstly in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, then in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Jakarta, before turning to alternative media: canvases, signs and metal plaques. His style has been infused with a wide variety of influences – action painting, Arabic calligraphy and Latino tattoos – but words are always central. A web of generally indecipherable words is assembled to create portraits or self-portraits. By using coded text to conjure up portraits, the artist engages in a subtle interplay of appearance and disappearance, in which the very substance of calligraphy, glyphs and ideograms is broken down and mystified.

Photos : SUN 7