Ancestral Sounds — artwork #10168 by Oscar Axo · Lurcy-Lévis, France

graffiti hyperreal portrait indigenous saxophone codex

Ancestral Sounds — Street art by Oscar Axo in Lurcy-Lévis

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Oscar Axo

Oscar Sandoval, better known as Oscar Axo, is a Mexican muralist born in 1984 in Oaxaca, to parents of Mixtec origin. He grew up immersed in the indigenous culture of southern Mexico — textiles, codices, traditional music, the Mixtec and Zapotec languages — which inform all of his adult practice. He paints large-scale hyper-realist portraits of women and children from Oaxaca dressed in festive cl…

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Added 19/05/2026

A 14×12-metre hyper-realist mural painted in 2024 by Oscar Axo on the main wall of the Street Art City complex in Lurcy-Lévis (Allier), following a two-and-a-half-month residency. The composition stages a Zapotec girl veiled in mauve playing a soprano saxophone, against a purple and lavender background, framed by pre-Hispanic codices and a stylised jaguar. A tribute to the musical culture of Oaxaca state, the piece ranked 9th best mural in the world for 2024 on Street Art Cities.

The artwork Sonidos Ancestrales is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Lurcy-Lévis in France, more precisely here: Street Art City, Hôtel 128, Lurcy-Lévis 03320.

This graffiti is also tagged as: hyperreal, portrait, indigenous, saxophone, codex.

Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Oscar Axo

The photo was published on 19-05-2026 by an unknown hunter.

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