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Gigantic spacemen tower above the streets of New Delhi in out-of-this-world art installations

This series of intergalactic art installations located in New Delhi, India, is the handiwork of Swiss street art duo, Nevercrew. They've been working together since 1996, and these out-of-this-world murals are their latest works, which sit a few kilometres apart.

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Colourful street mural by Nevercrew featuring a scooter rider's head in neon pink, blue and yellow against weathered buildings in New Delhi

The first was realised in the Lodhi Colony in south-central New Delhi, while the second was painted on six train containers of the "WIP" exhibition, at the ICD deposit of Tughlakabad, further south. Lodhi Colony is one of the oldest colonies established during the British period and was originally built in 1940 to house the employees of the government.

The artists explain: "In our society structured on the expansion of power and on the conquest of the final product, the origin of things and their history are often put aside. The reasons are confused and mixed over time, diluted up to make it turbid, making past and present less and less readable.

"In this way the vision of reality itself and its understanding, as the understanding of its problems, fails. The man finds himself with no history, unable to distinguish the outlines of his surroundings, without memories that make him aware and without reference points that make him conscious of his actual position."

Check out more of Nevercrew's work here.

Via Behance

Nevercrew's colourful mural of a giant astronaut's head on a pink building in New Delhi, with a yellow auto-rickshaw parked below
Colourful mural by Nevercrew featuring an astronaut's helmeted head in vibrant pink, yellow and blue surrounding an arched gateway in a New Delhi building's facade
Astronaut in full spacesuit sitting on a vibrant rainbow-striped fabric stretched across a deteriorating concrete rooftop in New Delhi
Nevercrew artist spray-painting a giant spaceman mural high on a building facade in New Delhi, viewed from above with the street and surrounding pink buildings visible below
Monochrome close-up of a spaceman's hand reaching across a pink wall, with colourful vertical stripes visible above in Nevercrew's New Delhi mural
Large-scale mural by Nevercrew featuring an astronaut with a reflective gold helmet on a bright blue shipping container surrounded by industrial structures
Nevercrew's mural of an astronaut with a reflective gold helmet painted on blue shipping containers surrounded by stacked cargo containers in an industrial yard
Artist working on a large-scale mural on a white panel at the Tughlakabad container installation site, with stacked shipping containers visible behind
Large-scale mural by Nevercrew depicting an astronaut's head and upper body rendered in monochrome on blue shipping containers in an industrial yard setting
Nevercrew's street art installation in New Delhi featuring a giant astronaut's head on a blue wall, with black containers decorated with white line drawings in a public plaza
Visitors gather in a public space surrounded by stacked shipping containers featuring Nevercrew's spaceman murals at the ICD deposit of Tughlakabad in New Delhi
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