VALENCIA, Spain (March 20, 2026) — Spanish street art duo PichiAvo took Valencia’s Fallas festival by storm with Per ofrenar (“To Offer”), a monumental installation that existed for just a few days before being consumed by fire during the festival’s closing ritual. Commissioned by the Borrull-Socors falla and featured in the Experimental Fallas category, the project highlighted the most conceptual and artistic proposals within the centuries-old celebration.
Nike in Athens, reflecting the duo’s signature fusion of classical imagery and graffiti. Inside, an altar made from surplus paper left over from the printing of PichiAvo’s 2024 book Our Odyssey held a perfectly balanced scale with two sculptural wax candles created in collaboration with Barcelona-based centenarian brand Cerabella. One candle symbolized Classical Art and the other Graffiti, expressing the duality at the core of the artists’ practice and the idea of equilibrium between creative opposites.
The monument took nearly a year to conceive and was built using traditional faller techniques, employing wood and paper rather than the industrial materials often used in contemporary monuments. Following the tradition of the Fallas festival, whose origins are linked to carpenters burning leftover materials as offerings, the installation completed its cycle on March 19 during La Cremà, the dramatic closing ceremony that returns each monument to ashes.
Per ofrenar earned First Prize in the Sustainable Fallas category and Third Prize in the Experimental Fallas category, celebrating both its ecological approach and conceptual strength. Over four days of festivities, hundreds of visitors actively participated by presenting their own offerings made from the same paper as the monument, including floral tributes and handwritten messages. In the final days, visitors began inscribing wishes and reflections directly onto the temple walls, transforming the installation into a living, evolving surface reminiscent of street graffiti.
PichiAvo’s project demonstrates how street art can bridge history and contemporary practice, inviting audiences to engage directly in the creative process and experience a monument that lives, burns, and leaves a lasting impression on both memory and cityscape.
About PichiAvo
PichiAvo is the artistic duo of Juan Antonio (Pichi, b. 1977) and Álvaro (Avo, b. 1985), artists from Valencia, Spain, known for their distinctive fusion of classical art and graffiti. Working across painting, sculpture, and large-scale public installations, their practice bridges ancient mythology with contemporary urban expression. The two met through Valencia’s graffiti scene and formed the PichiAvo duo in 2007, developing a collaborative language that moves fluidly between the street and the studio. Since their international debut at the North West Walls Festival in Belgium in 2015, they have completed major projects worldwide, including commissions at Wynwood Walls in Miami, the Hard Rock Stadium, and the Houston–Bowery Wall in New York, where they became the first European artists invited to paint the site. Their work ranges from monumental public interventions—such as a 26-meter sculpture for Valencia’s Fallas festival—to exhibitions and international collaborations, including projects developed for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. In 2024, they also published Our Odyssey, their first anthology tracing their artistic journey and signature visual language.
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