With Are You Ready?, Deih turns a wall into a portal to a parallel world.
An androgynous figure, harnessed and helmeted, seems poised to leap into an unknown dimension. The background crackles with geometric forms and vivid colors, blending the aesthetics of comic books with the digital imagination of video games.
Far from being a simple action scene, this work questions our relationship with adventure, change, and reality itself. The artist slips in a direct, almost intimate question: Are we ready? Ready to see the world differently? Ready to cross the threshold? Ready to project ourselves forward?
In this Bayonne neighborhood, Deih’s mural acts like an open rift into a possible future — an invitation to step outside the frame.
Originally from Valencia, Spain, Deih is a multidisciplinary artist who combines illustration, animation, and mural painting. For over fifteen years, he has been developing a unique graphic universe — somewhere between introspective science fiction and cyberpunk aesthetics.
Deeply influenced by the visual culture of the 1980s and 1990s (comics, TV series, genre cinema), he draws inspiration from artists such as Moebius and Enki Bilal while pursuing a distinctly contemporary approach.
His characters, often solitary and searching for meaning, wander through fractured mental landscapes where reality splits, cracks, or opens onto other planes of existence.
Deih doesn’t paint superheroes — he gives form to transient figures, souls on their way elsewhere. His work is both spectacular and existential, where the image becomes a mirror of the inner self.
Shortly after work began, a technical incident interrupted the progress of the mural: the lift on which Deih was working broke down, leaving him suspended high above the ground for over an hour. Remaining calm and focused, the artist waited patiently until a solution was found to bring him down safely.
Once back on the ground, Deih instinctively placed his hand on his forehead — a simple, almost reflexive gesture that captured both the intensity of the moment and the relief of touching solid ground again. The gesture made the team smile, then the artists, who began playfully imitating it on the festival’s internal chat.
On site, passers-by, school groups, and even volunteers struck the same pose in front of the mural, echoing the artist’s gesture.
That brief moment of technical tension turned into a shared memory — a joyful sense of complicity around the artwork, proving once again that creating in public space also means embracing the unexpected, laughter, and human connection.
But Are You Ready? made an impact far beyond the Balichon district. At the end of 2017, the international platform Widewalls, then a major reference in the street art world, named the mural Best Wall of the Year — an international recognition for Deih, and a remarkable debut for the very first edition of the Points de Vue festival.
