Chameleon at the arch — artwork #9980 by Roa · Djerba, Tunisia
graffiti reptile black-and-white cameleon arch ruins
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Roa is an anonymous street artist from Ghent, Belgium, born around the mid-1970s. Fascinated by animal drawing from an early age — he collected small bird and rodent skulls to sketch at home — he discovered graffiti through hip-hop culture in the 1980s. In 2008, he began painting giant rats in an abandoned Ghent warehouse, laying the foundation for a body of work devoted entirely to the animal kin…
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Added 20/04/2026
Painted in 2014 as part of the Djerbahood festival, this monumental chameleon by ROA coils within a stone arch ruin characteristic of Erriadh's architecture. The Belgian artist depicted the animal in his signature black-and-white style with striking anatomical precision: detailed scales, spiralling tail, and eye ringed with a yellow iris. The contrast between the black paint on the aged ochre wall and the palm trees in the background creates a remarkable composition, typical of ROA's approach of always integrating his work into existing architecture.
The artwork Caméléon à l'arche is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Djerba in Tunisia, more precisely here: Erriadh (Hara Sghira), Djerba.
This graffiti is also tagged as: reptile, black-and-white, cameleon, arch, ruins.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Roa
The photo was published on 20-04-2026 by an unknown hunter.
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