n 1998, Franck Scurti, always quick to react to insignifi cant events, ripped up an advertisement from Libération that shows a leaf from a tree and drew on it with a black marker. Initially this gesture evokes the use of advertising in Pop painting and the dissimulation of certain Pop artists behind the cold image of advertising. Wanted! But what are we looking for? Franck Scurti works with accidents and fracture; each of his actions can lead him, by a system of leaps or the association of ideas, toward new projects. Thus, six months later, he reused this spontaneous gesture to create a poster and a handout, “The city is not a tree,” sent anonymously to all the galleries and institutions in Paris, over four months, by a team of four people. Wanted takes as its fi eld of investigation the public space and becomes a parasite with the help of a recurring motif over a given period. It is a project involving uprooting, a metaphor of identity in the image of this leaf fallen from a tree whose veins evoke a thumbprint.

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