THE REBELLION of STREETART : from LISBON to on chain
WOMAN.LIFE.FREEDOM. ~ the rebellion of streetart. statements on walls. withstanding sun, rain and politics. ~ My wonderful friend and web3 founder Ania Pilipenko invited me to join a streetart tour through Lisbon.
A FEMINIST VIEW ON LISBON STREETART
With METAWALLS she‘s bringing streetart and the artists on chain, so they can become more profitable with their mostly unpaid work. For expanding METAWALLS we wanted to take as much inspiration as possible with us, but …
… while walking the streets we shifted on a feminist point of view and discovered many different art pieces. As everywhere, women are underrepresented. From the best known artists only two identify as woman, Joana de Abreu who filled spaces with missing tiles with poetry and Camilla Watson who brought photography on walls (picture w/ dog). The 3rd picture shows a mural, signed by Leonor Brilha and located in Beco dos Peixinhos, reminds us of traditional embroidery. It is composed of decorative floral elements.
Lucky us, our guide was from Yes You Can Spray, a female collective empowering women in getting active and creative, offering safe spaces and support. To see more women in the Urban Art you should go to Graça Neighbourhood, where you will find multiple quality and relevant murals.
Although the importance of female participation in society is increasingly impactful, much remains to be done. Necessarily we have to emphasise the importance of gender equality. Everyone’s contribution, without exception, is fundamental to the development and evolution of humanity.
WOMEN PAINTED BY MALE ARTISTS
Onze more we visited two of my favorite artworks which I had a different feeling to this time because of the happenings around the world.
„Face of a Woman“ is a collaboration by Vhils and local artist Shepard Fairey created in 2017 showing a half/half a woman with a scarf and a woman speaking free, both watchig the happanings on the street.
„Woman with Gun“ Shepard Fairey and his team were right in depicting a military woman with a flower gun, a nod to the carnation revolution and the fight for women’s rights in the artist’s emblematic style.
1st | Vhils, known for his iconic deconstructive artworks, created a long piece close to Jardim da Cerca da Graca. 2nd | Mario Belem for Underdogs Public Art | Saudade | The artist invites us to live in the world instead of looking at our belly buttons longing for the past (the Portuguese word ‘Saudade’ means precisely that, a feeling of nostalgia). Titled “Better to be lost here somewhere than on my way to nowhere,” the mural gained a whole new meaning during the pandemic when we couldn’t live in the outside world. 3rd | a goddess painted by an internationally known artist.
I had an amizing chat with Ania for my podcast „WEB3QUITY“ where we spoke about ethik and responsebilities we have to mention while onboarding people to the Web3 space and her work at METAWALLS. (german)