wood-up by Waxhead (left) and piece by Makenoize (right), in Mile End

This work brings together a street-art vocabulary and a urban approach. Its value does not come from applying decoration to architecture: the mural gains meaning through its scale, its surface and the way it is encountered in a real place.

MAKENOIZE is a Montreal street artist who has been sharing a positive message for over ten years. As an act of self-suggestion during a dark period in his life, he began covering the city with smiles and hearts, always prioritizing high-visibility locations. As expected, this approach gradually bore fruit, filling him with happiness and making him a bearer of a positive message. Recycling has always been central to his process, upcycling even the smallest obsolete object. He doesn’t ask permission to share love. With an ever-growing audience, his positive messages continue to evolve across different media.

MakeNoize, whose practice is connected with Montréal, develops a visual world that can be followed from one wall to another. Captions and archives connected to this body of work document interventions at St-Laurent, Mile End. These points of reference place the image within a practice rather than treating it as an isolated visual.