🎨 DIAFREL – Painting on the Forgotten
Based in Île-de-France, Diafrel is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice fuses ecological consciousness with poetic aesthetics. He paints on discarded surfaces—cardboard, plastic tarps, worn textiles, or abandoned kraft paper—breathing new life into forgotten materials.

Like Clément A. Gbegno, whose work also deals with memory and transformation, Diafrel’s art unveils forgotten stories through layered textures. And much like Abuchi Iroegbu, who captures deep emotional themes through hyperrealism, Diafrel uses materiality to evoke spiritual and ecological narratives.

From his studio in the heart of Paris, Diafrel creates a dialogue between pigments, textures, and silent narratives. The folds of cardboard morph into imagined cityscapes; torn tarps become starry skies. His works—suspended between abstraction and figuration—interrogate consumer excess while celebrating the hidden beauty of the mundane.

Currently working on a new series for African Crossings, he blends African symbols with urban textures. For Diafrel, painting on recycled materials is not only ecological—it is a political and spiritual act. His work invites us to rethink our relationship with impermanence, memory, and rebirth.

“The canvas is never blank—it has lived. My role is to reveal that memory, not erase it.”