150 empty facades in Moscow were given over to street artists to be covered with graffiti. The artists commented on what they did and why.
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Daria Nabieva
Mednoy: “In my work you can see escaped circus animals. The picture tells about freedom of movement, freedom of thought and self-expression. You are your own leader.”
Daria Nabieva
Adno: “Take a look at me and my daughter and it’s clear what the story behind my back is all about.”
Daria Nabieva
Petro: “I like working with shape and color. When I saw the urban space where I’d be working, the image appeared in my head all by itself and I just gave material form to it. The same with this small piece I’m holding here. It reiterates precisely the main idea of the picture behind me.”
Daria Nabieva
Akue: “This work ‘Superior Stare’ tells of how you should stop resisting and learn to let go in order to see main purpose of life in the here and now. I have a portrait of Karmapa, he’s a famous Buddhist Lama. ”
Daria Nabieva
Eloom: “This work characterizes the aims, sources of inspiration and fantasies that I live with. They all pass through a dark tunnel into a transformer box, becoming a parade that materializes into a final mood and the actions that I take in my life.”
Daria Nabieva
Aske: “The key in the girl’s hand symbolizes how people are always searching for solutions to the problems that humankind is immersed in.”
Daria Nabieva
Zmogk: “I don’t like talking about the meaning of my works. Everyone interprets them in their own way. That’s the charm.”
Daria Nabieva
Kio: “It’s all about structure, intercommunication, organization, collateral subordination, vectors, exceptions. I have this mineral with me for the same reason.”
Daria Nabieva
Slak: “It’s just a visual copy of my inner condition at the moment I was working on it. A part of that copy is in my hands right now.”
Daria Nabieva
Aber: “I worked on it with Marat Morikom. The piece is called ‘Moment of Inspiration’ – it’s a story about a girl who’s out walking her dog in the rain and suddenly experiences a magic moment of inspiration when the world becomes more poetic, ethereal, unreal.”
