Video: Colorful favelas - art project for the slums of Sao Paulo
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Almost all of us know about favelas - Poor areas of Brazilian cities, where people live in terrible living conditions (often without any communications at all). And even the police are afraid to enter these neighborhoods - drug cartels are in power there. But the Spanish artists from the association Boa mistura the ominous glory of the favelas did not stop them - they made their way there and turned the gray slums into a riot of bright colors.
I must say that Boa Mistura is not the first to come up with an artistic project in the favelas of Brazilian cities. Before them, at least, the artist JR with his series of faces of cities and Michael Jackson with the video for the song "They don't care about us".
The artists from Boa Mistura call themselves "graffiti rockers" (graffiti rockers), thereby accentuating their attempts to rip the patterns and mock social norms.
So with their project "Floating Graffiti" they show that they have such a nickname for a reason. Boa Mistura painted several of Sao Paulo's favelas in bright colors. Of course, in this way they did not solve the financial and social problems of these areas. At least directly. But they turned the gray slums, to which people simply tried not to pay attention, not even look in their direction, into bright spots, which every now and then cling to their eyes.
Thus, Boa Mistura wants to draw the attention of the authorities of the city of São Paulo and Brazil in general to the problems of the inhabitants of the favelas. And to help themselves during the implementation of the project, the artists took the residents of this area themselves, who happily responded to the proposal to paint their dull houses themselves with bright colors provided by Spanish authors.
As if in a mockery of the wretchedness of life in the favelas, Boa Mistura called these compositions Amor (Love), Beleza (Beauty), Orgulho (Pride), Doçura (Sweetness).
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