Quick CDMX: Overunder and NDA in Mexico City with Eva Bracamontes

OverUnder and NDA took a trip to CDMX over the weekend and say they “hit the ground running”. The street artists/muralists have been running the streets of various cities over the last 10-15(?) years even though they live in different time zones now (Reno and Philadelphia) and neither are in Brooklyn, as they were when we first met them.

NDA (photo © Overunder)

Both surreal in their approaches, their styles complement one another – as you can see by the wheat pastes they put up on the streets in Mexico City. The works take so much effort and planning, a self-authored approach that is unsanctioned and given freely.Their richly alien pieces change everything around them with on-point color stories and carefully rendered mysteries. Without a doubt these new pieces recontextualize their surrounding, causing passersby to perhaps reexamine and reconsider everything nearby; typical business signage, color palettes, textures, and architectural details.

Overunder (photo © NDA)

In addition to the smaller street art pieces, Overunder, NDA, and local/international mural talent Eva Bracamontes had time to do a new mural together. Well, 75% of a mural anyway. “One business on the bottom right pulled out on the day of painting, so that is why it’s a weird white box.” Who hasn’t been there? Sudden re-allotment of space aside, the mural is a finely balanced combination of their styles – and completed in record time!

“The icing on the cake was meeting up with the talented and gracious Eva to imagine and paint a 3-story mural in just 10 hours,” says OverUnder, who sends us some pics from the quick trip. OU says he would like to thank the Secretaria de Obras y Servicios de la CDMX for the space, supplies, and support.

Eva Bracamontes with NDA sketching the mural. (photo © Overunder)
Eva Bracamontes (photo © Overunder)
NDA (photo © Overunder)
NDA and Eva Bracamontes (photo © Overunder)
NDA and Eva Bracamontes (photo © Overunder)
Overunder, NDA, and Eva Bracamontes (photo © Overunder)
NDA and Eva Bracamontes (photo © Overunder)
Overunder, NDA, and Eva Bracamontes (photo © Overunder)
Overunder, NDA, and Eva Bracamontes (photo © Overunder)
Overunder, NDA, and Eva Bracamontes with personnel from the Department of Public Works CDMX. (photo © Overunder)
NDA (photo © Overunder)
NDA (photo © Overunder)
NDA (photo © Overunder)
NDA (photo © Overunder)
Overunder (photo © Overunder)
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