Video: Portraits of French homeless people in the project Musee Urbain
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We recently wrote about unusual gunpowder portraits depicting Donetsk miners from coal and salt mines - art project "1040 m underground" by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Non-standard faces, colorful figures, picturesque images … And French street artists from the association Artisme found color and non-standard on the surface. The main characters of their project Musee urbain became homeless men living in the gateways of Paris and other French cities. Every day we see homeless people sleeping on benches or train stations, eating leftovers from garbage cans, or visiting community and church centers to eat and wash. All these people have a difficult past and a dark future. And some have neither one nor the other - only a hopeless present. People pass by them and cars whiz by, some honor the homeless with a glimpse, while others do not notice at all. But in the Musee Urbain project, each of them is the main character, awarded a personal portrait on the wall.
The artists from Artisme decided to elevate the Musee Urbain project to the level of a museum exhibition. Each portrait of a homeless person is accompanied by a short story of his life, but the letters with which this story is written pale in comparison with the emotion and expression of the black-and-white portrait. It doesn't take a lot of colors to show despair and hopelessness …
The "Street Museum" project, as its name is translated from French, can be viewed in detail on the website of the Artisme creative association.
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