Bilal Berreni [ Zoo Project ]

Zoo Project, pseudonym of Bilal Berreni, is a French urban painter, born June 23, 1990 in Paris and murdered on July 29, 2013 in Detroit (United States) at the age of 23. His work was first exhibited on the walls of northeast Paris, then in Tunisia, just after the Tunisian revolution of 2010-2011, where it was particularly noticed. Bilal Berreni was born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris on June 23, 19902 to a mother from Périgord and a father of Algerian origin, Mourad Berreni, director and director of the Théâtre de l'Echo in the 20th arrondissement. He has an older brother Marwan, an actor, and is the grandson of Charles Sarlandie, chief of staff of the Resistance within the Violette Battalion in Saint-Mesmin, in Dordogne. A Parisian teenager from the 20th arrondissement, Bilal Berreni began painting walls in his neighborhood at the age of 15. At 18, he created the name “Zoo Project”. At the Boulle school, he took a baccalaureate in applied arts then joined the École Duperré wher...