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Murmure is a French visual artist duo composed by Paul Ressencourt and Simon Roche, who met during their studies at the Fine Arts school of Caen, Normandy, France. Originally one specialized in creation, graphic arts and urban arts, the other one in arts and technique, but they quickly found themselves through a common passion for drawing and street art.
Working together since 2010 in the public space, they cover cities walls with their drawing, murals, ephemeral exhibitions under the name of Murmure Street. As voluntarily engaged artists, Murmure explore through their art many themes in a fun, oneiric or poetic way, in order to share their vision of the world. Childhood, homeless people, consumption’s society, new technologies and the environment are among their favorite subjects. If there is a message behind each work, it always remains subtle, leaving the viewer free to interpret each work ac- cording to its sensitivity.
Although Murmure’s works are mostly visible in the street, because this is where they become meaningful, it is the studio work that is at the center of each project. Working with four hands, they draw mainly with carbon pencil to obtain a profound depth in dark shades hyperrealistic, photographic rendering. Each work is the result of a process of shared thoughts on the composition, the meaning and its uniqueness. It is in the studio that a project will be thought of and developed before some of them can see the light of the day in the street, through the creation of a scale 1 drawing. Installed in the street, their drawings interact with the urban environment.
The choice of space and the wall they will be put on, both in terms of its materials and its colors, become a narrative complement to the drawing. Time and natural or human degradation, come to perfect the work, making each one unique. Constantly in search of new forms of expression both through the technique used and by the medium chosen, Murmure unveil their works in galleries, in the street and as well as with monumental mural. More recently, Murmure started to work in acrylic on canvas, exploring new developments.