The hunt brings together several raids around La Villette: seven mosaics installed on March 31, twenty more from May 20–23, three on May 28, and PA_1596 on July 1. They stretch from the Philharmonie and the Cité de la Musique to the Canal de l'Ourcq embankments, the Folies, the 211 and the walls around the Trabendo.
The occasion is BEYOND THE STREETS at the Grande Halle — 3,600 m² curated by Roger Gastman, running May 27 to August 30, with graffiti legends from FUTURA 2000 and Lady Pink to Shepard Fairey and JR. Invader is in the show too, and he signed the building in his own way: PA_1590, a 30-point piece, is woven directly into the exhibition's scenography. You have to walk the show to flash it.
The park raid even had an opening act. Days earlier, Invader warmed up at the Philharmonie and the Cité de la Musique — where the Video Games & Music exhibition is running — with pixel portraits in place of the classic alien: the Daft Punk duo in their suits (PA_1568, a 100-point flash), a monochrome tribute to Barbara near the artists' entrance, and a nod to the Velvet Underground worked into Jean Nouvel's angular façades. These seven pieces are now part of the hunt — no hunter walks past a Daft Punk without flashing it.
The wave lifts Paris past 1,590 invaders across 136 waves — still the most invaded city on Earth, in a body of work that now counts more than 4,400 pieces across 87 countries. Thirty-one La Villette newcomers are catalogued in this hunt, every one flashable today.
