YZ (pronounced 'eyes') is a French street artist. She creates original artworks on paper to be featured on city walls. These short-lived images become part of the city environment and question its fading memories. The different series she has created are considered as startling narrative of female power where feminine figures are at the forefront of her work.
Yseult Digan aka YZ (b. 1975) lives and works in France after many years spent in Senegal, Ivory Coast and UK. Her work has been exhibited at the Grand Palais, Fondation Cartier, she has also been invited as an artist in residence at Centre Pompidou. In 2018 she has been assigned by President Macron to create the new image of ‘Marianne’, the symbol of the French republic. She has been represented by >french art studio in London since 2012.
