Obey (Shepard Fairey), Behind you HPM, mixed media on paper, 74x107 cm, 2009

Behind you HPM is a mixed media print on paper by American artist and street artist Shepard Fairey, better known as Obey.

The silkscreen is directly retouched by hand by the artist with stencils and collage, which makes it very interesting indeed. In this subject, the involvement of the observer is very strong, we see the protagonist of the whole representation represented in the centre of the silkscreen, i.e. the finger pointing precisely in the direction of the observer.

Obey is as if he wanted to warn us never to lower our gaze, but above all to be very attentive to everything that surrounds us; his is an invitation to "always have our eyes open" to the injustices that happen when we are not looking. The work is hand-signed in the bottom right-hand corner and numbered in the bottom left-hand corner in an edition of only 10 copies.