Seth paints in Paris
- Street artist Seth (Julien Malland) is creating a new mural on rue Émile-Deslandres in Paris's 13th arrondissement. - The mural replaces an earlier piece that had been covered during insulation work, restoring the wall's public-art role. - Le Parisien reported the on-site painting this week, noting the mural's return to that wall and local reaction (leparisien.fr).
Seth, the Paris street artist born Julien Malland, is painting a new mural this week on rue Émile-Deslandres in the city’s 13th arrondissement. (leparisien.fr) The wall stands on a social-housing building at the corner of rue Émile-Deslandres and rue Croulebarbe, where Seth had already painted before insulation work covered the earlier piece. Le Parisien reported him working on-site on April 21, 2026. (leparisien.fr) Sortir à Paris said the new work is an XXL mural and described the return as a reclaiming of that same facade after the previous artwork was erased. A Street Art Cities listing places the new piece at 2 rue Émile-Deslandres and dates it April 17, 2026. (sortiraparis.com) (streetartcities.com) The mural goes back onto a wall inside one of Paris’s best-known street-art zones. Galerie Itinerrance says its Boulevard Paris 13 project has been commissioning large-scale murals in the arrondissement since 2009 in partnership with the 13th arrondissement town hall. (itinerrance.fr 1) (itinerrance.fr 2) Paris je t’aime, the city’s tourism office, says the district now has more than 50 monumental urban artworks by artists including Shepard Fairey, C215, Invader and Seth. The route has turned the area around Place d’Italie and Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand into an open-air gallery. (parisjetaime.com) Seth is a familiar name on that circuit and beyond it. His own site describes him as a French artist whose work centers on painted figures and public murals, while older Boulevard Paris 13 material shows he had already returned to rework one of his Paris murals in 2019. (seth.fr) (itinerrance.fr) The immediate issue here was not a new commission on a blank wall but the restoration of a site that had lost an artwork during building renovation. Le Parisien said local reaction focused on seeing public art return to a facade that residents had known as painted before the insulation works. (leparisien.fr) By April 22, 2026, outside coverage was already treating the mural as the latest addition to the arrondissement’s street-art map. The wall on rue Émile-Deslandres is again doing the job it did before: serving as a public canvas in Paris’s 13th. (sortiraparis.com)
