some time, the artist transformed the city with colorful murals. In this note, talks with Nan Agency about how street art can be a tool for feminist struggle, a way of combating insecurity and a meeting space and artistic interaction. By Carolina Sánchez Iturbe Stock
The Dark Flack
La Plata, March 4 (NAN Agency, 2011) .- "Why do I have to eat your wall blanquita? The wall of your face is all and if you do not like, andate the countryside or Move to a country. " Luxor is one of those artists who know exactly what they want. Far from thinking of art from a purely aesthetic, he knows that paintings done in record time on the walls of La Plata can be a tool of struggle, to build a more just society. And who does not believe in the possibility of avoiding the destination, with its certainties to the surface, no commitment dribbles and spray in hand, block after block describes what the world in which to live.
struggle is defined from Luxor and a good time. He is a feminist and as such, his works contain a message that, under oath, is for women and for women. "The truth is that if I paint it I would make a woman out there would be thought of as crazy. Now, as I paint I am chabón, I'm cool. I'm not a damn cornered. To me it is very easy to get out to paint me about feminism because no one tells me things on the street, nobody touches my ass, nobody looks at me and no legs gets me in fear that one day in my life going to be raped. If a woman does, is a hysterical, is a lesbian who walks with short hair, "he says with conviction, and then confess it costs to draw figures that refer to a female aesthetic.
The truth is that the militancy of Luxor is longstanding. As a teenager, he met anarchism and soon joined the ranks of various groups who looked to this form of political construction. However, in the case of Sandra Ayala Gamboa, the girl who was raped and murdered in 2007 in the building of the former Archives of the Ministry of Economy is in La Plata and today became ARBA, learned a new way of approaching the world of women. "I thought that feminism can have a broader reading, contrary to what happens with anarchism. I would define my activism as a feminist cultural anarchism, which is like doing a reading of reality from a feminist to understand that there is a capitalist and patriarchal system that can be solved from anarchy, but taking as a tool for this construction to culture, "he explains. Since then, the walls of the city is filled with colorful levitated girls with tousled hair and looks strong and bird locked in his heart of hearts girls vermilion, all surrounded by phrases rather than conclusive, by legends, eg reading "when they move, males retreat."
"I am sexist." Undaunted by what might seem a strong contradiction in his speech, the artist says one of the hardest things in the process of artistic activism is to escape the cultural imprint masculinity that marked him from birth: "All men are like heterosexuals, the issue is to deconstruction. It happens that the construction of the machismo of a man is a process, then the deconstruction of understanding things that way, too. It is a long and difficult process, but worth it because feminism is a tool to defend against the oppression of the pattern. " So yes, Luxor is defined as a man who shares the feminist cause and seeks to end the submission that comes in this spiral of violence does not discriminate classes and whose root is in the exercise of power. "I do not show my face in the pictures I take with the murals because they are designed for feminisimo, I'm just the middle. It is important that men who are accompanying the struggle of women to understand that you can criticize our space implies that space just to run them power without trying to be the head of the race. If there is a revolution going to be women, not the chongos. " Luxor
know that the streets are the canvas above, the place from which to observe, say, think and, at the hands of street art, diving into the unknown to modify the order. "For me, things are not fought from inside, or you share You fight or does not change anything inside because that is the first step to burocratizarte" says in a firm voice, then explain that his job is to produce changes that, from short puffs, transformers are: "Changing the crossing point is to change the way of people passing through. Then, it causes small changes in the lives of those people because you do reflect, to enjoy, to be put in a good or bad mood. " Thus, the intervention of public space is presented as "a strong political decision."
"Best of paint on the street is to share, meet people, find yourself chatting with a neighbor, knowing his life and history. This is an attack of insecurity. The more color, more safety. More bars, less color, less security, "says the boy who has tattooed on one arm the image of women portrayed on the walls to quickly explain that citizens often look favorably on their work, but the situation turns when feel that their private property can be attacked.
Abocado to an art form that often does not have financial rewards, Luxor found a way to fund their encouraging urban paintings at the same time, the collective contribution. So when someone calls to decorate the patio or any part of his house, he asks how much you can collaborate and making clear that the work can cost less money, suggests that serve to resolve the remaining work on the road: "I do not pay labor to buy spray paint in the street. Then, automatically, that person is supporting my work. A do not use that money for something else, that money is of aerosols, is designed to folk art, to think the art on the street. I do not want that money for my life because I would be lying. "
Luxor now dreams of a FLIA of graffiti, a space where they can meet to, painting, transforming the city. With some trials of what he calls Magenta Intervention made during the past year, now expects to achieve a dynamic group that advocate for folk art and where they can also be integrated artists from other fields: "This year I want to add people to make music, to open the proposal. I do murals, DJ's and invite people to go dancing. Why We Can not Dance weekdays, shit? Why do we have to wait for Saturday to brazen? "
" My idea is that people are active, sharing the street. Can anyone like what I do, I care, the issue is to shake. So much art for me is people coming out to write on the white wall mouth dale, dale wolf as I do. We all resignifying the street ", says while planning new ways of meeting art on the sidewalk where, again, to share the space with various artists who have very different ways even to his watch and capture the world in the pictures, but they are willing to, next to each other, transforming the daily: "I do not think like me. Now, I'm going to paint a woman is bow, firefly, is going to be a woman is not going to be a bun. "
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