Untitled anamorphic mural — Peeta, Porrentruy
Peeta (Manuel Di Rita) · La Colombière 7 · Porrentruy, Switzerland
Photo from Street Art Utopia’s archive; the same photograph is the first image on Peeta’s own project page, so it is the artist’s own published photograph. Neither page names the photographer or gives a capture date. Artwork: Peeta. Full photograph shown; resized for display.
Bands, boxes and rounded frames in beige and grey seem to burst out of a plain apartment gable, while every real window stays exactly where it was. Peeta painted this anamorphic illusion for the 2026 POPA Festival in Porrentruy as part of a festival route that, in RFJ’s words, turns the town into an open-air museum of optical art. RFJ · Collater.al · Peeta Studio Checked
5 things to know
- Made for POPA’s 2026 editionThe artist’s own page dates the mural to the 2026 POPA Festival, an initiative of the POPA Museum of Optical Art in Porrentruy. RFJ and Collater.al tie the same wall to the festival. Peeta Studio · RFJ · Collater.al Checked
- The building’s own colours do the workPeeta writes that matching the facade’s original colour palette was essential for the illusion of depth, letting the painted volumes seem to change the structure itself. Peeta Studio Reported
- The windows stay putCollater.al’s Anna Frattini notes that the facade and the windows are still in place, while something in the middle seems to have given way. Collater.al Reported
- A festival born from a meetingRFJ reports that the Porrentruy POPA Festival grew out of a 2024 meeting between Pierre Kohler and the Paris street artist Astro, held its first edition in 2025 and added works by 1010 and Peeta, plus a floor piece by Astro, this year. RFJ Reported
- “A temporary interruption of normality”RFJ and Collater.al both use this phrase for Peeta’s approach. Collater.al traces it to graffiti lettering he began exploring in 1993. The wall coincided with a temporary show of his canvases, sculptures and prints at the POPA museum. RFJ · Collater.al · Peeta Studio Checked
Check-in guide
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- La Colombière 7, Porrentruy: the wall of a residential building. RFJ · Collater.al Reported Only RFJ gives the street number.
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- RFJ gave the viewing period for this year’s festival installations as 9 May to 21 June 2026. It does not say whether the painted wall stays after that, and we found no dated sighting after May 2026. RFJ Unconfirmed
Sightings
- 20268 May
RFJ names the wall
- 202619 May
Collater.al photo report
Both stamps are publication dates. RFJ’s report appeared the day before the festival route opened; Collater.al’s report shows the finished wall. The archive photograph has no recorded capture date and the artist’s page is undated, so neither is used as a sighting.
On the record
The address
“Son œuvre se trouve sur le mur d’un bâtiment à La Colombière 7.”
“His work is on the wall of a building at La Colombière 7.” From RFJ’s festival report.
A building that stopped looking like one
“C’è un palazzo residenziale a Porrentruy, in Svizzera, che non sembra più un palazzo residenziale.”
“There is a residential building in Porrentruy, Switzerland, that no longer looks like a residential building.”
Borrowing the facade’s palette
“A defining aspect of this intervention is its precise integration with the building’s original color palette, which is essential for executing the illusion of depth.”
Peeta describing the Porrentruy wall on his own site.
The facts
- Work
- An untitled anamorphic mural. The artist’s page heads it simply “Mural”, and neither RFJ nor Collater.al gives a title. Peeta Studio Unconfirmed Street Art Utopia’s post calls it “Anamorphic Facade” as a description, not a title.
- Artist
- Peeta (Manuel Di Rita), an Italian artist; Collater.al says he is now based in the Netherlands. RFJ · Collater.al · Peeta Studio Checked
- Date
- 2026. The exact painting days are not published. Peeta Studio · RFJ · Collater.al Checked
- Festival
- Porrentruy POPA Festival, 2026 edition. RFJ · Peeta Studio Checked Collater.al lists support from Popa Festival, Popa Museum and Art From Street. Collater.al Reported
- Technique
- Anamorphosis: painted volumes that read as three-dimensional around the building’s real windows. RFJ · Collater.al Checked
- Status
- Seen May 2026: Collater.al’s report of 19 May 2026 shows the finished wall. No later dated sighting found. Collater.al Reported
- Archive photograph
- Street Art Utopia media item uploaded 4 June 2026, reused unchanged. It is the same photograph as the first image on Peeta’s project page (same framing, parked car, shrub and POPA logo), so it is the artist’s own published photograph. Peeta Studio · Source post Checked Neither page names the photographer or gives a capture date. Unconfirmed
Related
- Odd Art and Architecture (12 Photos): the SAU collection that includes this wall.
- 6 Photos Of 3D Mural by Peeta in Mannheim, Germany: another of the artist’s facade illusions.
All sources (4)
Press
- RFJ: Le Porrentruy POPA Festival transforme la ville en musée d’art optique à ciel ouvert, 8 May 2026 (updated the same day). Regional radio report on the festival’s 2026 edition; names Peeta and gives the address La Colombière 7.
- Collater.al: Peeta Turns a Building in Porrentruy into an Anamorphic Illusion, Anna Frattini, 19 May 2026. Italian-language report with photographs of the finished wall; lists the supporting organisations. Its text is independent, but its images appear to be the artist’s own Instagram photographs, so it is not a separate photographic witness.
Artist
- Peeta Studio: Porrentruy, Switzerland. For POPA Festival, 2026, undated project page with the artist’s photographs and description.
- Peeta Studio: Murals, undated index that lists “Porrentruy Switzerland for POPA Festival” first among his recent murals. Same origin as the project page; counted once.
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