In a similar vein as UK street superstar BANKSY, Brazilian artist Alexadre Orion makes powerful, though less politcal statements, through the juxtaposition of his bold stencil graffiti and the surroundings they are placed in.

Documented in a series of large format black and white photographs, his latest show, entitled Metabiotics is currently on view at San Francisco's 111 Minna Gallery.

Smart and powerful, these photographs (and the stencils they document) suggest a powerful dialogue between the artist and his work and the populace simply wandering through the spaces he selected...

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