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Punkmetender - What the Gesture Remembers , 2026, Archival pigment print on canvas, individually hand-embellished and comp...

What the Gesture Remembers , 2026

Archival pigment print on canvas, individually hand-embellished and completed with handwritten epoxy resin |Signed and Dated

36x36 in.

About this work

Punkmetender has emerged as a distinctive voice in contemporary art, commanding attention for works that interrogate the boundaries between digital creation and physical craft. The artist's practice occupies a compelling position at the intersection of technology and traditional technique, drawing collectors who recognise the growing significance of hybrid methodologies in the current market landscape. What the Gesture Remembers presents a meditation on embodied memory and the traces left by human movement. The work begins as an archival pigment print on canvas, establishing a foundation of precision and permanence, before the artist intervenes directly through individual hand-embellishment. This layering of the mechanical and the gestural creates a surface rich with tension and resolution. The application of handwritten elements sealed beneath epoxy resin introduces both intimacy and protection, preserving the artist's mark while simultaneously encasing it in a luminous, dimensional finish. The thirty-six inch square format asserts presence without overwhelming, inviting sustained contemplation of its textural complexities and compositional balance. Each work in this limited edition of seven, accompanied by two artist's proofs, exists as a unique iteration. The hand-embellished nature of the finishing process ensures that no two pieces are identical, offering collectors both the accessibility of an editioned work and the singularity of an original. For acquisition enquiries regarding What the Gesture Remembers or other available works by Punkmetender, please contact Guy Hepner.

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Edition & Provenance

Year
2026
Medium
Archival pigment print on canvas, individually hand-embellished and completed with handwritten epoxy resin |Signed and Dated
Edition
Edition of 7 + 2 AP

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Roman Lefebvre is a French multidisciplinary artist working across digital film, photography, painting and sculpture. His practice examines the invisible structures through which perception becomes memory, belief and reality.

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About Punkmetender

Roman Lefebvre is a French multidisciplinary artist based in Miami. Born in Paris and shaped by nearly two decades in Los Angeles, Lefebvre played an integral role in developing the visual identity, design language and studio practice of Mr. Brainwash during the formative years of his international career. He is featured in the Academy Award- nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop and worked alongside Banksy and other influential figures of the international street-art movement.

Under the name Punkmetender, Lefebvre subsequently established an independent international practice spanning painting, sculpture, installation and large-scale public work. His works are held in prominent private collections internationally, including those of a member of the Getty family, Mariah Carey, Khloé Kardashian, Paris Hilton and Dave Navarro, among others.

Now working under his own name, Lefebvre is expanding his practice through digital film and Membrane, a materially layered series examining perception, memory and the unstable boundary between image and reality. Moving between contemporary digital figures and historical imagery transformed through oil painting, abrasion, handwritten language and transparent epoxy resin, his work explores how beauty is preserved, disrupted and reinterpreted across time.

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