“How BLEU and MODA crossed the LINE!” 2026 (Limited Edition Print) by Bleu Pablo x MR. MODA)
“How BLEU and MODA crossed the LINE!” This collab by Bleu Pablo and MR. MODA reads like a visual argument, layered, interrupted, and intentionally unresolved, performing the tension between Black artists and Neo-Expressionism through erasure and refusal. At the top, “How they place labels on us” is overwritten by “How to be free,” setting the tone that freedom isn’t given but written over imposed identity. The chair marked “rest” feels unstable, pointing to both the need for pause and the fragility of our seat at the table, while the adjacent “X” suggests being simultaneously chosen and denied. Words like “NEO,” “Supreme,” “Cage,” “Label,” and “Reserved” are crossed out, exposing systems that attempt to categorize and contain, where inclusion can quietly become a limitation. The pink and gold “Cage” seduces while trapping, the downward arrow pulls everything back into definition, and “Sound” with distorted notes reflects how Black expression is often filtered or misunderstood. With “to be continued” crossed out and labels scattered then rejected across the surface, the work embraces contradiction, using the language of Neo-Expressionism while denying its authority, ultimately arguing that the real danger isn’t exclusion but being included on limiting terms, and that true freedom exists beyond the need for any label at all.